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Apology Demanded for N.I. Priest's Yoga Comments

By Irish America Staff
April / May 2015

March 16, 2015 by </a> By Irish America Staff<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2015-archive/april-may-2015/">April / May 2015</a> 1 Comment

Father Reverend Roland Colhoun, a priest at Waterside Parish of Roman Catholic Diocese of Derry in Northern Ireland, as reported by The Derry Journal, “warned parishioners against taking part in yoga” while saying mass in Drumsurn recently. “Yoga is certainly a risk,” he said. “There’s the spiritual health risk.” “It’s a slippery slope from yoga to Satan”, RT channel quoted … [Read more...] about Apology Demanded for N.I. Priest's Yoga Comments

September 27, 2000

Thirty-three years after the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses was released, Ireland finally decided to lift the ban on the film. Many consider Joyce’s great novel to be “unfilmable.” However, Joseph Strick, an idealistic American director, decided to take up the project. His adaptation, much like the book, drew much controversy. Many scenes were cut at its screening at the Cannes Film Festival. In Ireland, film censors unilaterally banned the film saying that it was “subversive to public morality.” Ulysses was the second film to have the ban lifted, following Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in 1999.

Apology Demanded for N.I. Priest's Yoga Comments

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