Bad romance: 10 surprising facts about the Irish and sex
Published Saturday, February 20, 2010, 10:41 PM
Updated Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 3:56 PM
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'The most expensive 14 minutes of my life,' says Colin Farrell of the sex tape in which he starred.
10. Now they’re on YouTube
Now everyone knows your business if they have a laptop. In the last decade you were no one if you’re private life wasn’t picked over in public. Even homegrown Irish celebrities joined the trend of discovering their privately made sex tapes had turned up on YouTube where the whole world laughed at their antics. In Ireland we have Colin Farrell to thank for this. Always first in line for a bit of trouble, in 2005 a sex tape featuring Farrell and a former Playboy model Nicole Narain appeared on the internet prompting a lawsuit by the temperamental Dubliner, who called it “the most expensive 14 minutes of my life.” It certainly wasn’t his most inspired.
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STEVENSTAR | Feb 17, 2013, 08:53 AM EST
IF THIS NEWSPAPER WAS PRINTED IN IRELAND AND IF THE REST OF MY FELLOW IRISH COULD READ WHATS PRINTED ON HERE BY AMERICANS THERE WOULD BE ABSOLUTE UPROAR.. I THINK ITS A DISGRACE WHAT THIS NEWSPAPER PRINTS ... AND GIVEN THE INTELIGENCE OF MOST OF WHATS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IM SURE MOST OF IT IS BELIEVED WHICH IS THE SAD THING ... BUT ONCE THEY COME OVER ON THEIR HOLIDAYS AND SPEND THEIR $$$ THEN WHO ARE WE TO COMPLAIN :-)
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Stiofain | Feb 16, 2013, 02:40 PM EST
Sorry,comrades this machine is acting weird. At least,I guess, I got my point across.
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Stiofain | Feb 16, 2013, 02:38 PM EST
Aaah!It was the Italian men who forced the church on the Irish so they could claim credit as great lovers with out competition.
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Stiofain | Feb 16, 2013, 02:38 PM EST
Aaah!It was the Italian men who forced the church on the Irish so they could claim credit as great lovers with out competition.
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Stiofain | Feb 16, 2013, 02:38 PM EST
Aaah!It was the Italian men who forced the church on the Irish so they could claim credit as great lovers with out competition.
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Stiofain | Feb 16, 2013, 02:38 PM EST
Aaah!It was the Italian men who forced the church on the Irish so they could claim credit as great lovers with out competition.
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Stiofain | Feb 16, 2013, 02:38 PM EST
Aaah!It was the Italian men who forced the church on the Irish so they could claim credit as great lovers with out competition.
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REMITROMJR | Mar 27, 2011, 06:19 AM EDT
Boswell was a homosexual out to reconcile his perversion with Roman Catholic teaching. From Wikipedia: "Rites of so-called 'same-sex union' (Boswell's proposed translation) occur in ancient prayer-books of both the western and eastern churches. They are rites of adelphopoiesis, literally Greek for the making of brothers. Boswell, despite the fact that the rites explicitly state that the union involved in adelphopoiesis is a "spiritual" and not a "carnal" one, argued that these should be regarded as sexual unions similar to marriage."
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CitizenWhy | Mar 15, 2011, 03:05 PM EDT
My very Catholic mother from Ireland used to say in response to comments against homosexuals: "It's their natir (Nature). They have to love according to their nature. And that's enough on that topic." She often said in response to priestly pronouncements: "What do they know? Make up your own mind." Her down-to-earth priest relatives acknowledged that they were skeptical about many church teachings on sex, and endorsed the idea of making up your own mind.
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sonshine1949 | Feb 26, 2011, 10:08 PM EST
Does anyone here rememeber that the Irish were Pagan for centuries BEFORE Christianity arrived and much of the religious beliefs today are an incorporation of both Pagan and Christian beliefs? People, really???? How can you call yourself knowledgable about being Irish if you don't even know that much about your own history!?!!!!!!
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Whitepark | Feb 26, 2011, 05:59 PM EST
I know the unemployment rate in Ireland today is very high, but by reading some of the above descriptions of Ireland from the past you folks really need to get back to work, you have far to much time on your hands.
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Towngate | Feb 22, 2011, 11:53 AM EST
Kateomprint: The Muslims only have to say it three times. Join up and save yourself the walk! ~ ~ ~ anybody else interested in ancient Irish attitudes to the power of sexual reproduction should google image "Sheela-na-gig" and see what was removed from roadsides and CHURCH buildings and hidden in the basement of the Dublin Museum. There you will see the real meaning of Hole-y Ireland. Warning: Not for the faint hearted!
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kateomprint | Sep 12, 2010, 04:46 PM EDT
I have read about the Brehon laws and they seem to be way ahead to their time. A woman could divorce a man by walking around him three times say "I divorce thee" and the job was done. No lawyers no legal fees. What a great time that must have been.
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ODonnabhain | Sep 11, 2010, 01:54 AM EDT
The Irish were always ahead of their time!
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