Simon Tierney
@Newstalkfm - Reporter, Presenter of NT specials - Shopping Trolley Hotline -Stuff that Changed the World - Ireland's Greatest - Volunteer with @ALONE_IRELAND
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1 month ago |
thejournal.ie | Simon Tierney
IN AN INTERVIEW with a Jesuit magazine in 2013, Pope Francis declared, “The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.”This is not how many Irish people will remember their first experience of entering a confession box, at the tender age of eight. The idea of telling a small child to step into a dark wooden box and to share their worst secrets with an old man who is sitting inside always struck me as bizarre.
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Feb 13, 2025 |
independent.ie | Simon Tierney
I love to give flowers to people. My wife and my mum, mostly. But I’ve never had this experience myself. It always makes me smile. The sight of distressed men scurrying into petrol stations on the night before Valentine’s Day, desperately looking for that last forlorn, manhandled bunch of red roses. I love to give flowers to people. My wife and my mum, mostly. But I’ve never had this experience myself. Because no one has ever given me a bunch of flowers. And why would they? I’m a man.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
independent.ie | Simon Tierney
Should Irish school pupils call teachers by their first names? First names are used in some schools as part of a more ‘child-centred’ approach. Photo: GettyIn his memoir, Frank McCourt, the author of Angela’s Ashes, recalls his time teaching in a high school in New York in the 1960s. One day, a student shouted out, “Yo, teacher man”. He replied, “Call me Mr McCourt.”While “teacher man” might be a step too far, should we really be using formal modes of address in our school system anymore?
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Sep 26, 2024 |
thejournal.ie | Simon Tierney
WE LIKE NOTHING more than a lovely car park in this country. Lots of gorgeous tarmacadam, freshly painted white lines and beautiful, shiny new ticket machines. We get goosebumps at the mere announcement of a new car parking facility. And there are many, many opportunities to get excited. You can’t flick the pages of a regional newspaper without discovering a local Cathaoirleach has cut the ribbon of yet another brand, spanking new automobile crèche. I jest, of course.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
irishexaminer.com | Simon Tierney
I used to love renting movies in the days of bricks-and-mortar video shops. I have a vivid memory of racing into the Xtra-vision in Nenagh one Friday after school in 1996 to rent Men in Black, which had just been released on video. I was too late. All 15 copies had already flown off the shelves. The man at the counter sensed my disappointment and suggested I try another movie released that day called Scream.
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American food is the most popular cuisine in Ireland. With the arrival of Taco Bell, the colonisation of our culinary landscape is almost complete. By my calculations, there are now over 600 American fast food restaurants here😲 I'll be discussing on @TheHardShoulder at 6.30 🍔 https://t.co/8q97yw0Uzg
Our future grandchildren will be shocked to discover that as late as the 2020s, 90% of our primary schools were controlled by a church. History is unfolding in one direction, so let's get on with it. Strong piece by @pmonahanjr @edu_equal https://t.co/4kPSiCofLR
Discussing the urgent need for divestment in the Irish school system on @IrelandAMVMTV yesterday morning Our teachers, parents and children are entitled to diversity of education and a secularised school structure. Fine Gael have been dragging their heels on this for too long https://t.co/nI7peTZWAe
