Endings can be beginnings, this blog is just beginning and a one I had else where will be ending but I hope to transfer what I had there to here if the export file is salvageable. Cos really my insane mutterings have to go somewhere or else I could end up ranting to myself in the street like a mad woman.

With recent registering of of Ray Sweeny National Coordinator of Pagan Federation Ireland, on the Register of Solemnisers pagan marriages can now be legally preformed.

http://paganfederationireland.webs.com/pagancelebrants.htm

Legal Pagan Marriage

With effect from 15th December 2009,
the National Coordinator of Pagan Federation Ireland,
has been registered on the Register of Solemnisers,
under the terms of Section 53(3) of the Civil Registration Act 2004.

Consequently, it is now possible to be legally married
in a Pagan ceremony in Ireland

If you wish to be legally married in a Pagan ceremony,
please contact paganfederationireland@gmail.com
to discuss the necessary requirements.

Whats a solmeniser?
A solmeniser is a religious person who acts as a functionary and will sign the forums needed to make a marriage legal which are then processed by the register of births, deaths and marriages.

http://www.groireland.ie/getting_married.htm

2.2 MARRIAGE BY RELIGIOUS CEREMONY

Marriages by religious ceremony may be performed according to the customs and ceremonies of the church or religious body which is carrying out the ceremony. However, all the civil requirements set out in Section 1 must first be complied with and the couple must have been issued with a Marriage Registration Form by a registrar which they must show to the person solemnising the marriage. The solemniser must also be a registered solemniser, nominated by his or her church or religious body, and it is the responsibility of the couple to ensure that the person they wish to solemnise their marriage is on the Register of Solemnisers.

Temporary registrations of solemnisers of religious marriages are possible for those who only wish to solemnise a specific marriage or to solemnise marriages for a specific period of time.

The venue for a religious marriage is a matter for the authorities of the church or religious body under whose auspices the marriage is being performed.

All marriages, civil or religious, must take place at venues which are open to the public

The ceremony must be performed in the presence of two witnesses who are both over 18 years of age. Both parties must make two declarations:- a) that neither of them knows of any impediment to the marriage; and b) that they accept each other as husband and wife.

At the end of the ceremony, the solemniser, the couple, and the witnesses must all sign the MRF. The completed MRF should be given to a registrar (not necessarily the registrar who issued it) within 1 month of the ceremony, so that the marriage can be civilly registered. Please note that you will not be able to obtain a civil marriage certificate until such time as the MRF has been returned to a registrar and the marriage is civilly registered.

And there is somthing about the festive season which isn’t quiet right with out a bit of that little matchstick girl feeling, the there for but for the grace of what ever go I.

I’m back from a funeral, the mother of one of children’s class mates died over the weekend leaving her husband and 4 children behind the youngest being twins who are only 11.
The church as the saying goes was black, as she was well known in the community and will be missed. Her husband looked heart broken and her eldest daughter tried to hold the family together and the boys just looked lost.

The most wonderful time of the year except when it’s not and then it’s really not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qqnTmBTwOo

I have been battling a chest infection for the last week and it’s been winning was at the dr and have been giving fecking horse tables of amoxicilllin, between that and not sleeping and what now seem to be my lemsip habit, I just don’t currently have the mental clarity to be doing well anything. I stood staring at my sock drawer unable to decided between stripey and non stripey so long I zoned out completely.

I got asked what I was planning on doing for dinner yesterday and couldn’t think and nearly started crying, I don’t want to think about what still needs to be done for the festive season.

At least the tablets from the Dr and the two types of steroid creams for my psoriasis seem to be starting to work and my face no longer looks like I “had a bit of an argument with a cheese grater” and that quote was from my Dr, wonder lady but was trying to make me laugh to make me cough again.

The kids are ok, thankfully not sick and not poking too much fun at my lack of brain, I can’t focus enough to read anything for any length of time and when I try to watch a movie find myself staring into space and I have not had a cup of coffee in 5 days, the sooner I am out of this hell the better.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1126/breaking61.html?via=rel

How the story of abuse in Catholic Church institutions emerged

Ireland Timeline

1987 – Insurance taken out by dioceses around the country to cover them against allegations of clerical child sex abuse.

1987 – The Irish state publishes its first set of guidelines on child abuse.

1988 – Desmond Connell appointed Archbishop of Dublin.

1990 – Irish Catholic Church establishes internal committee (chaired by Bishop of Ossory Laurence Forristal) to assess legal implications for Irish priests of child abuse revelations in the future. No Irish case has yet been made public.

June 1994 – The scandal breaks – Fr Brendan Smith is sentenced to 4 years in prison for abuse of children in Northern Ireland.

October 1994 – Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference refuses to comment on reports that two Kerry priests were removed from their duties on foot of allegations of child sexual abuse.

November 1994 – Government falls over divisions between coalition partners Fianna Fail and Labour over Attorney General’s handling of extradition requests for Fr Brendan Smith to Northern Ireland.

April 1995 – Andrew Madden is the first victim of clerical child sex abuse to go public. The Irish Press reports that he has received a compensation payment in respect of his abuse as a child.

May 1995 – Archbishop Desmond Connell announces that the archdiocese has never paid compensation to any victim of clerical child abuse. He later explains that the money used to compensate Andrew Madden was a “loan” from the archdiocese to Ivan Payne.

June 1995 – a Dublin priest receives 12-month sentence for child sex abuse; Belfast priest Daniel Curran sentenced to seven years for child sex abuse. A number of other priests charged with abuse during following months.

September – RTÉ Prime Time programme names Ivan Payne as abuser of Andrew Madden. Archbishop Connell threatens to sue over suggestions that he facilitated the compensation payment to Andrew. No case is ever taken.

October 1995 – The Irish Times reports that another Dublin priest paid £50,000 compensation to a man he abused as a child.

November 1995 – Bishops issue fullest apology to date.

November 1995 – Wexford priest Fr Sean Fortune charged with child sex abuse.

January 1996 – Bishops publish new guidelines on child sex abuse cases – The Framework Document, otherwise known as ‘the green book’.

June 1997 – A Dublin priest received an 18-month jail sentence for sexually abusing a young girl during the 1970s.

July 1997 – Fr Brendan Smyth jailed in Dublin for 12 years for abusing children south of the border.

February 1998 – Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announces that mandatory reporting of child sex abuse will be introduced within lifetime of current government. (To date, this has still not happened.)

June 1998 – Irish priest Fr Patrick Maguire (Columban) jailed in London for child abuse (18 months).

June 1998 – Fr Ivan Payne jailed for sexual abuse of eight young boys. His two-year sentence is criticised for being too light.

July 1998 – Fr Gus Griffin (Holy Ghost Fathers) sentenced to seven years for abusing young boys.

July 1998 – Fr Thomas Naughton sentenced to three years for abusing four young altar boys.

March 1999 – Fr Sean Fortune commits suicide on the eve of his trial on multiple charges of child abuse.

June 1999 – Pope John Paul II rejects any linkage between child sexual abuse and priestly celibacy.

September 2001 – retired judge Gillian Hussey appointed by hierarchy to chair Church’s Child Protection Committee. Audit of all dioceses announced.

March 2002 – BBC television broadcasts Suing the Pope on the abuse of boys in the Ferns diocese by Fr Sean Fortune.

April 2002 – Bishop of Ferns Brendan Comiskey resigns in response to evidence that he covered up child sex abuse in his diocese.

April 2002 – Government announces establishment of independent inquiry into child abuse in the Ferns diocese.

June 2002 – Maynooth trustees announce inquiry into allegations of improper behaviour by its former vice-president, Monsignor Micheál Ledwith.

October 2002 – RTÉ’s Prime Time broadcasts Cardinal Secrets on the handling by a number of bishops of clerical child sex abuse allegations in the archdiocese of Dublin.

November 2002 – Government pledges to establish full independent judicial inquiry into Dublin archdiocese’s handling of abuse allegations.

December 2002 – Hierarchy disbands its own national audit committee.

January 2003 – Mervyn Rundle, abused by Fr Thomas Naughton, receives one of largest settlements to date, reported to be over €300,000.

May 2003 – Diarmuid Martin named as successor to Desmond Connell as Archbishop of Dublin.

April 2004 – Cardinal Desmond Connell steps down as Archbishop of Dublin.

October 2005 – Ferns Report is published, detailing extensive child abuse and cover-up.

November 2005 – Judge Yvonne Murphy appointed to head up Commission of Investigation into the Dublin archdiocese.

January 2008 – Cardinal Connell seeks to refuse access by the Commission of Investigation to over 5,000 documents which he claims are confidential. He eventually drops his challenge.

March 2009 – Bishop Magee of Cloyne steps aside from his duties after it is revealed he did not follow proper child protection guidelines. Government extends remit of Dublin Commission of Investigation to examine the diocese of Cloyne.

May 2009 – publication of Ryan Report on widespread abuse of children in Ireland’s institution.

They took out insurance, they knew it was happening, they covered it up, they didn’t report the crimes,
they got those crimes when reported swept under the carpet and when it looked like it was going to become public, they took out insurance against claims against them.

I never felt as much ire directed at the institution of the catholic church as what I do today.
I could accept that there were rotten apples in the priesthood, I could accept that it was a different era.

I could accept that there was not the same guidelines on child protection that we have now but
the church took out insurance.

I don’t think any amount of insurance policies will ever be able to cover for the counseling and therapy of those who were abuse and of their families who have suffered either from the revelations or from having lived a life with someone who was damaged from being a victim of clerical child sex abuse as a partner or as a parent.

You might be a larper if you know what Snazaroo is, where to get it locally and have the urge to buy more then one colour.

My first encounter with the ” water based face and body make-up” was at warpcon after I agreed to take part in the first of the Jumptech series, it was referred to as ‘snazz’ at the time and I didn’t pay it much heed.
It went on easily enough and I had great fun wandering around after wards with yellow skin with red stripes.
I did how ever clean my face before getting the bus home but alas wearing it for that long and the warm bus meant it was sorta embedded in my skin and it took a few days to wear off.

This didn’t stop me from donning it at Leprecon and again at Itzacon. At Itzacon I was not the only member of the Krayace race present but they followed along the same colour scheme. Last weekend at Gaelcon I donned the
snazz get again, to portray the person of Meeray Fnarr for the fourth time. This Time I also did the make up for some one else and say just how easy it was to apply. Given the festive fun for the weekend I kept the yellow skin and red stripes for the rest of the evening and only after I went home after kicking very well behaved gamers out of the conference centre at 4am did I have a shower and deKrayce.

So when I daughter declared she wanted to BE a bar of chocolate for Hollow’een and when she arrived home from school with the box she wanted to use as her costume I had to go find suitable make up for her face and hands.
This time of year all sorts of crap is old as kids make up and I wanted to avoid most of them as she does have sensitive skin, so I headed to the local arts and crafts store and lo and behold not 10 foot from the door there was a “snazaroo” stand with many colours and the round sponges and helpful suggestions of how to use 3 or more to turn your child into a frightful site.

So I bought the brown, I also bought the yellow and red, it’s the least I can do as I hope that JumpTech will
run for 3 more sessions if not keep going for a 3rd season and I hope there will be more people choosing to play Krayce as at Gaelcon our numbers had doubled to 4, and the more sets of paint we have the quicker people can get ready.

Getting their face painted is something my daughter tends to like more then my son and there are pretty good guides on the website www.snazaroo.com so it’s not like I won’t have some one to practice on.

Yeah so it seems I may need a snazbag and I might be turning into a larper…