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Does anyone remember Jade Goody? She, was the young, mouthy, English Big Brother star, who lived her time from diagnosis to death from cervical cancer on the small screen. Jade found out she had cervical cancer while on Big Brother India in…

The greatest trick the Church ever played was convincing the Irish that it wasn’t dictating our lives. Catholicism has a way of forcing itself upon the Irish psyche, but it goes about its work with such subtlety that we still react to its…