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# not-cardinal-brady - Today’s News
10 great products to make more of your garden
Say no to gnomes this summer with IKEA garden furniture.
# not-cardinal-brady - Sunday 29 April, 2012
8 bits that caught our eye in the Wills and Kate wedding
It’s the first anniversary of the British royal couple’s nuptials today. Whether you were really interested or not, there are a few moments that still linger in the mind…
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 20 April, 2012
# not-cardinal-brady - Sunday 8 April, 2012
Column: Cardinal Rules – The Easter epic
What happens when two rival live Passion Plays collide? This and the other Easter Weekend happenings from the (not) Primate of All Ireland.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 30 March, 2012
Column: Cardinal Rules – On the household charge and the stranger at the door
This week, the (Not) Primate of All Ireland and his pals worry about levies, escaped convicts… and spiked lemonade.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 23 March, 2012
Column: Cardinal Rules – Our day with Mahon
This week, the not Primate of All Ireland recounts the anguish of the Mahon report – especially the bit where he tried to download it.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 2 March, 2012
Column: Cardinal Rules – On how Inkgate goes all the way to the top
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland investigates the full extent of Inkgate – and finds out about Richard Bruton’s addiction to novelty erasers…
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 3 February, 2012
Column: Cardinal Rules – On cross-cultural exchange
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland and his colleagues ruminate on multicultural Ireland and embrace the “great big melting pot our little island has become”.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 27 January, 2012
# not-cardinal-brady - Saturday 31 December, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules remembers 2011
The Pope’s stunt double, liveblogging the British royal wedding, a politican and an inflatable penis – good times, my flock, good times.
# not-cardinal-brady - Saturday 24 December, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – The Three Wise(ish) Men
This Christmas Eve, the (not) Primate of All Ireland brings his specially-extended version of the tale of The Three Wise Men… and an aubergine.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 16 December, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – On the invasion of science
This week, the (not) Primate of All-Ireland reflects on a difficult few days in which the clerics lost a Brother and almost gained a God particle.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 9 December, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – On giving Brian Hayes a helping hand
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland reflects on the needy and vulnerable of Ireland, including members of Government who now have to subsist on only several thousand euro a week…
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 25 November, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – on hiring housekeepers
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland gets with the guidelines and indulges in a touch of “positive discrimination” when hiring for the clerical household.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 18 November, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – on Occupy Jim Sheridan’s gaff
This week, the (not) Primate of All-Ireland is caught up in #Occupy fever – and decides to #Occupy Jim Sheridan’s €7,000-a-month rented house.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 28 October, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – On Bertie Ahern vs Steven Seagal
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland was torn between the Bertie interview and a Steven Seagal movie on TV – and learned that the two men are not as far apart as you would think…
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 30 September, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – There’s a guy outside my Tesco swears he’s Jesus
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland has a house guest – a bearded young man who wears sandals and speaks in Biblical tones. It couldn’t be… could it?
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 23 September, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – on Sinn Fein’s presidential campaign
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland is greeted by the Martin McGuinness supporters – but it all goes terribly wrong…
# not-cardinal-brady - Monday 19 September, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – on the annual trip to Knock
This week, the (not) Primate of All-Ireland brings the priests on their annual pilgrimage to the Mayo shrine. But is one of his clerical flock tempted by a (not ‘Our’) Lady?
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 9 September, 2011
Column: Cardinal rules – A day in the life…
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland talks us through his typical day – it’s not all smiling at old ladies and driving around in the mini, you know.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 2 September, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – On keeping the FF dream alive…
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland blesses a new hotel for old pal and ex-Fianna Fáil TD Mattie O’Moore – and learns a little about humility and the value of the JobBridge scheme.
# not-cardinal-brady - Saturday 27 August, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – On tour with Il Papa
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland heads to Madrid to see his Holiness work the crowd and find his inner rock star.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 19 August, 2011
The Daily Fix: Friday
Catch up on the day’s big news – as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed…
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 5 August, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – Croagh Patrick for purists
This week, the (not) Primate of All-Ireland details the trials of the recent Reek Sunday – where fun has started to ruin the penitential tradition beloved of (not) Bishop Brophy.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 29 July, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – On defending Morrissey
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland has to play peacekeeper in the terrible row over Morrissey: “an undisputed genius” or “a big mountain of stupid”?
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 22 July, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – What happens in Lourdes, stays in Lourdes…
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland embarks on the annual parish pilgrimage… but will everyone get home safely?
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 15 July, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – The lesser-known story of Zacchaeus
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland retells the tale of the short tax collector who climbed a fig tree to see Jesus – but wasn’t so hot on inviting Him back to the house for dinner…
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 8 July, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – Keep your Oxegen, we have Priestopalooza…
The (not) Primate of All-Ireland has no intention of heading to Punchestown this weekend – he’s still recovering from a Declan Nerney-inspired stampede at the ‘Weekend for Jesus’ music and prayer festival…
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 1 July, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules – On helping the Pope to tweet
This week, the (not) Primate of All-Ireland is drafted in to help his Holiness to get to grips with Twitter. “He receives a tweet from the Dalai Lama. ‘Dude,’ it says. We just ignore it.”
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 24 June, 2011
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 17 June, 2011
The Daily Fix: Friday
In today’s fix: Private courses for secondary teachers, goat-killing bodhrán makers and the Take That invasion begins…
Column: Cardinal Rules (Part 28) – On my pal Padre Pio
This week, the (not) Primate of All-Ireland marks the anniversary of Padre Pio’s canonisation with his recollections of their boyhood friendship… and their caravan holiday in Tramore.
# not-cardinal-brady - Sunday 5 June, 2011
# not-cardinal-brady - Monday 23 May, 2011
LIVE: (Not) Cardinal Brady’s liveblog from Obama’s concert
TheJournal.ie’s resident columnist and spiritual leader gives us his blow-by-blow account of goings-on at College Green in honour of visiting US President Barack Obama.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 13 May, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules (Part 24) On the joy unconfined of watching Jedward
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland relates the excitement among the Fathers as they settled in for last night’s nailbiting Eurovision semi-final: “We decide to do the Rosary early to get it out of the way…”
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 6 May, 2011
Column: Cardinal Rules (Part 23) On the beatification of Pope John Paul II
This week, the (not) Primate of All Ireland gives us a peek at his diary from the Vatican last weekend:”We are as excited as a bunch of schoolgirls on their way to a Cliff Richard concert”.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 29 April, 2011
LIVE: (Not) Cardinal Brady’s liveblog from the royal wedding
TheJournal.ie’s resident columnist and spiritual leader gives us his blow-by-blow account of Kate and Wills’ Big Day from (just outside) Westminster Abbey.
# not-cardinal-brady - Friday 11 March, 2011
Cardinal Rules Part 15: On Lenten bootcamp for priests
The (not) Primate of All Ireland brings the Fathers on a pre-Easter retreat of expiation and self-flagellation. They also promise to give up pink M&Ms for Lent.




















































