Drogheda Pride Big Event tomorrow, Friday-5-August-2022 in Millmount Museum, Drogheda. 


The official opening of Drogheda Pride.


Raising of the Pride Flag at the town's highest point.

Congratulations to all involved, most notably the Pride Team.



Drogheda Pride Official Opening

Drogheda Pride Big Event tomorrow, Friday-5-August-2022 in Millmount Museum, Drogheda. 


The official opening of Drogheda Pride.


Raising of the Pride Flag at the town's highest point.

Congratulations to all involved, most notably the Pride Team.



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    1. no doubt there is an element of woke that loves to control and impose on others what they say is permissible. But it is a positive event and I will be going along with my daughter. To think that this was once a town with a strong Catholic ethos from which it has since liberated itself. That can only be a good thing.

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    2. It's becoming gaudy though. I've dear family and friends who are gay and they find Pride marches too much. Conversely the funniest people I've met were drag queens. Ah well, can't please everyone.

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  2. Whereas I supported the Marriage Equality referendum I'd caution against unequivocal support for 'Pride' organisations. Their position on 'Trans' issues, to my mind is questionable. Though I can allow for a man who has had his penis hollowed out and his testicles removed, thus allow the remaining skin and nerve endings along with the scrotum to be fashioned into labia and a vagina of sorts and then self-identify as a trans-woman, I'm opposed to allowing those individuals compete in female sports competitions.
    I'm also opposed to allowing non realigned self-identifying transwomen enter female designated facilities. She certainly can be allowed to expose her penis in such places. The 'Pride Community' ought be challenged on their dodgy positions on these issues. Yes, trans people out have the freedom to choose their identity and live accordingly, but like religious freedoms to practices, they ought not be wilfully imposed upon others.

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    1. that will get you no platformed, censored, cancelled by the dictatorship of the Woketariat.
      The sort of questioning you bring has to be permissible in any intellectual milieu if ideas are to be a source of cultural energy. I don't care how people define or trans. I have a friend who is trans - I met them after their transition. I didn't know until he told me. Great guy. WTF should it matter to me what they are? At the heel of the hunt it doesn't really matter what people are themselves but how they treat others. Which is a good thing. I love the way my kids are so relaxed about the whole thing in relation to their own friends.
      But some woke wanker should not be able to put their hand up like a traffic cop to oncoming discussion and shout in the harshest tone they can muster - Verboten

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    2. Over the coming years this laissez faire epoch will be rolled back upon. The medical and psychological consequences to many transitioners will become more apparent and lead to several series of class actions against the various participants in this craziness.

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    3. Rollbacks too can be fraught with dangers - the assault on Roe V Wade, being a case in point.

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    4. your point about class actions is noteworthy - I have been thinking the same about those subject to circumcision. It could well happen in both instances. I can see no logical reason why a circumscribed child should not be able to sue if the intrusion on its body was not for a medical reason. My religion allows me to mess with your dick is hardly going to be a strong defence.

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    5. Yeah, I was in Berlin recently and visited the 'Jewish Museum'. While there I watched some video presentations where circumcision was discussed in the context of Jewish cultural identity. I found it hugely disturbing to hear the 'mothers' enthral about their felt emotions on presenting their sons for cutting.

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    6. wouldn't mind a trip to that city if you are up to it some time.

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    7. That's a possibility.

      I was there for a week in June. It was a wonderful and stimulating experience, cheap & efficient public transport with English widely spoken to boot. A real doddle.
      Herself was so taken with the city that she was waffling on about renting an apartment there for a month (talk is cheap)!

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  3. What about having a "Proud to be Hetro" parade on the 1st Sat of August next year.... Seems everybody else can have a day...Why not 'hetros' like me and a boy named Sue..?

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    1. Frankie,

      You'll be howled at for blasphemy. But like I said, not everyone who prefers their own gender likes the pride thing. The problem straight pride would have is it undoubtedly would be hijacked by the far right.

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