David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would like to nitpick a little with my distinguished colleague, Senator McDowell. First, when speaking about the Government's appointment of minority candidates the Senator lumped them all together as Protestants. I am an Anglican. I am not a Protestant. I am a high church Anglican. I remember when I was a child fighting with my great friend Michael Moran, who I am glad to say is still alive and friendly with me, about a dinky toy and Michael won by sticking his tongue out and saying, "Yeah, you're not a Catholic." When I went home to my mother in floods of tears she asked, "What's wrong darling?" and I responded "Michael Moran says I'm not a Catholic". She said, "Of course you are darling; don't you say every Sunday in Cathedral, 'I believe in one holy, Catholic and apostolic church'? You're just not part of the Roman error like Michael Moran." That is the way my mother saw the Vatican.

Second, in regard to the dreadful judgment in the anti-Semitism case, where the judge said it was so ingrained as to be reasonable, that is the most half-witted comment I have ever heard, even from a judge.