Terence Davies: Happy Talk!

“Being gay has ruined my life! I hate it. I’ll go to my grave hating it. Which is why I have been celibate. One-night stands are not for me. I was not good looking. I did not have a good body. Nobody was interested when I was young. Now I am old. I am still not good looking. I know what I am. I will always loathe it. It has killed part of my soul.”

Terence Davies interviewed in The Irish Times.
Funny, you'd never guess he had such a bleak view of gayery from his fillums...
Ooh look! She's got one of those websites!

Louis Walsh: Free

"A man (24) has been charged with falsely accusing music industry manager judge Louis Walsh of indecent assault at a Dublin nightclub.
"Leonard Watters, who was granted bail on condition he does not contact Walsh or anyone from the Westlife band, is charged with making a false report to gardaí. He appeared at a brief sitting of the Dublin District Court just before 1pm.
"Walsh has described the investigation over the last week as hugely distressing.
"Mr Watters was charged under sectiuis wal;on 12 of the Criminal Law Act, and penalties for the offence range from a €500 fine to five years in prison..."

Irish Times.
Always good to hear a millionaire winning over a homeless man...
The Sun says; "LOUIS Walsh was given a standing ovation at X Factor auditions yesterday - 24 hours after he was cleared of a gay sex attack.
"The talent show judge looked close to tears as a 5,000-strong audience clapped, cheered and chanted his name..."
That's nice - I still hope Louis Walsh sues The Sun.
As ever, Fagburn's thoughts are with Mr Walsh and his wife at this difficult time.

David Norris: Socrates, Plato & Guys Like Me

'Irish presidential hopeful David Norris in row over paedophilia remarks'
Really?
I wonder what David actually said.

“We got into an academic discussion about Plato’s Symposium and the things that were discussed in that. It was ancient Greek classical literature.
“I made a distinction between paedophilia and pederasty, which is a totally different thing. To the average person it would not make any difference I suppose but to me it did because I knew what I was talking about. That got mixed up and stayed mixed up.
“I abhor with every fibre of my being the idea of interference with children, sexual abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse. My record on that speaks for itself.”
Asked about the distinction between pederasty and paedophilia he said the former was referred to in Plato’s Symposium .
“They discussed stuff and they talk about love between two men and the system in Greece where an older man at the gymnasium took a younger man, but a man, classified as over the age of consent in this country, under his wing and lovingly started a relationship with him. They were proud of it.
“The debate on the Symposium is very interesting because at the end of it, Alchibiades, who is a beautiful young man, has offered himself to Socrates. Socrates refuses because he says wisdom is forever but the body perishes.”
He said it was a mistake to have allowed himself get involved in what he said was an “academic and intellectual discussion” on pederasty. He maintained he was flabbergasted by the questions put to him by Ms Burke, and their graphical content, and should have got up and left the restaurant.
“I was foolish. I should not have let myself get into an academic discussion with somebody I knew only as a restaurant critic. I felt astonished at the questions. I said I did not want to talk about sex and she said that in the article.”

The Irish Times.
Senator David Norris is running for Irish President.
He should have learnt not to talk sense in the Age of Stupid.
And that good men tend to get crucified.