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IT’S ALMOST LEAVING Cert time.
This year thousands of students have been pouring over Shakespere’s works and many of you reading this will have done the same with King Lear back in the day.
It’s time for a pop quiz on Lear’s descent into madness:
By Michelle Hennessy and Nicky Ryan
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I remember a Dail speech that this app is not touching
Dear Mr o Brian,
While there may be an injuction against any media speculation as to how you conduct your own business, your own money and your own personal bank accounts, in place and we will abide by the injuction.
However the use of public money was and is a matter of public interest, and as the public owned the bank in which you allegedly had said dealings with, and said publicly owned bank was acting illegally by giving loans which it should not have,it is in the public interest, and the public should be allowed to ask questions.
If there is nothing to hide all questions could be answered.
Yours
Pi$$ed off people
All answers can be listed below…but only from anyone living in malta
4/10 and I did king Lear in 97 Hons and got a b! Just goes to show you can cram the night before and forget the min exams are over….
‘See with thine ears’ and all that….nerr a mention of the scheming skanks, Gonerill or Regan!
How is this deemed more worth of an article than what is happening with Denis O’Brien right now?
are you that desperate to troll?
I’m not defending him in any way but commenters here don’t seem to realise that injunctions are issued all the time. The only difference here is that it’s not to prevent the publication of a footballer’s affair or some other trivial nonsense.
I’m sure DOB doesn’t walk into the Journal’s office and micromanage or threaten anyone personally. They have to abide by the court order or risk prosecution. It’s that simple.
But what Catherine Murphy said wasn’t included in the injunction.
Are you that desperate to troll, said the troll. Denis O Brien should be splattered across every article right now.
@ qwerty: An injuction has never been issued before which clashes with the medias constitutional protection under article 15.12 of the constitution to publish utterances made under Dail privilege.
more more more :D
Some interesting all encompassing reading…..
Is that the story of the rich man who had so much money he could control the elected ruler and change the laws of the land to suit him? Oh wait no, that’s modern day Ireland.
Who ‘did’ the state some SiteServ-ice….no more of that!?!
You’re a clown
What about King Leech? Anybody remember him??
Never mind King Lear, wheres Captain Clusterf**k aka enda kenny?
Is he hoping to solve constitutional crises one buttered scone at a time??
constitutional crisis :D
keep going your playing a blinder :D
Ah Patjoejoe, you’re the joke that just keeps on giving!!!
You do realise that a constitutional crisis is solved by the courts, not the government?
Just another reason not to elect the Shinners. But then again, the workings of democracy isn’t their forte
I’m doing the leaving and I’m fairly sure this years play is othello… If not … I’ll be back next year !
Hahahahah
I remember Denis o brien too.
Tip to the author, write an article about the biggest story of the day.
You write one.
Anyone remember king Henry the 8th who ordered the parliament to do his bidding. Sounds familiar eh Journal
Can I Just ask/say , Tv News and newspaper are not allowed to comment or publish Catherine Murphys speech in the Dail, but the Irish Times prints the letter that DOB sent to her, criticizing her over it.
Is that not F×cked up?!
Yes. It is.
This years Shakespearean play is Othello…
Yes. But the major theme of King Lear is blindness. Appearance versus reality.
5. Was my Leaving Cert play all those years ago, don’t remember it very well
Also, the English paper hastag down the bottom has English wrong on it
And i have hashtag wrong on my post, ah well!
The Journal: Obscure, Divert and Ignore the News
It isn’t King Lear it is Othello on the leaving cert actually.I think the journalist should read up the facts before throwing an article out.Very ironic I must say…
https://www.education.ie/en/Circulars-and-Forms/Active-Circulars/cl0011_2013.pdf
This year’s Leaving Certificate students are studying Othello! It’s next year’s students who are studying King Lear!
I’m in fifth year and I’m studying King Lear not the year above btw
Hope the Journal is taking foundation level having studied the wrong play!!!!! On the upside I still got 6/10..!!! Blindness is a big theme in the journal with DOB lately too!!! How ironic!!! 1.25%
We’re doing Othello…
“Malta” – OMG I’m such a rebel!! Derp!
Okay Chris
Can I join your gang now? Or do I need to do something madder?
“1.25‰!!” – is that enough? This feels so exhilarating! Almost like a real protest, but lazier & lamer!
Okay Chris.
How come I have a screenshot of you as Chris Bruton?
Jebus. If you even have an ounce of will power put it in to leaving this clown alone! It’s the only way he’ll p!ss off! Don’t even give him a red thumb…
Oh no – it’s “An Observer” – I have enraged he! Do your worst – I’m still waiting for this “wrath” you speak of – I’m in your sights, yeah?
Chris, what’s this about you slagging disabled people off and robbing other people’s identities?
Luke I was just going to comment “okay Chris” on anything he said and see what that would do. But Just go onto his profile look at his first tweet and go to the full conversation. Sean Costello has tagged the guy who picture he was using.
How come ‘Chris’ you come on here telling people to hold each other’s dicks yet you were a yes voter in the referendum? Do you get more attention if you appear as against gay marriage?
Chris – Your idiocy is truly intriguing.I love you divert the topic when you get caught out it is with out doubt a clear indication of your stupidity.Your comments are childish and you can not under no circumstances hold a debate.Finally,by slagging disabled people clearly shows how immature you really are.I think people are better off not replying to your idiotic inept commentary.
Haha. Never done king Lear. Never read king Lear. Know nothing about king Lear. I got 7 outta 10. Feeling lucky. I’m gonna do the lotto.
Some good King Lear quotes.
“Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty”
“The rain it raineth every day” says the Fool preaching stoicism in the face of mendacity.
“So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough” – says Gloucester.
Lear – ‘Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician seem to see the things thou dost not’ like the suffering of ordinary people.
Lear – ‘When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools’
“Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.” Cordelia
“Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes.” said King Lear to Cordelia. Sounds familiar to our media’a ears I bet.
“Nothing will come of nothing.
“As if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.” how Greece and Ireland feel in the EU.
“I will preserve myself, and am bethought, To take the basest and most poorest shape
That ever penury in contempt of man, Brought near to beast.” What austerity does to society.
“O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars, Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,, Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.” Money doesn’t matter to nature. Just the heartbeat.
“The art of our necessities is strange
And can make vile things precious.” Money, does horrible things, debase yourself etc.
“Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,Your looped and windowed raggedness defend you
From seasons such as these? O I have taken
Too little care of this.” says Lear. Regret after enlightenment.
“A man may see how this world goes with no eyes.”
“Know my name is lost, By treason’s tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit.”
Sorry got a bit carried away with the King Lear quotes there. I enjoy a bit of the ould bard.
“Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes.” said King Lear to Cordelia.
This one is the most apt to our current media situation.
7 from 10 not bad concidering i did the leaving 18 yrs ago
Yup 3/10 I studied Othello
I remember doing king Lear in JUNE 1977 . IT MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO MY LIFE. I married a princess. Made billions. Have4 10 million mansions. Have a helicoptor 26 cars . What a waste of time that was . Have I all of the above?? NOOOO . And it’s in next year’s leaving cert again. Jesus!
I did Hamlet
6 out of 10…. Sat my Leaving in ’89. Woohoo:-)
7/10. Did Lear on 1991 Leaving Cert as mature student and got A!
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