In 1553, Bartholomew Ball ascended to the position of Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Ball was a Catholic and married to Margaret, with whom he had a large family. Both were devout Catholics.
Unfortunately, one of their sons, Walter, became an apostate to Protestantism for the benefit of his political career.
Margaret heroically sheltered priests who were escaping Protestant persecutions and hosted Mass with archbishops and bishops.
In 1580, the disgusting apostate child was elected as Lord Mayor of Dublin as a reward for his sycophancy and immediately ordered his arthritis riddled mother to be dragged by wooden pallet to imprisonment in a dungeon in Dublin Castle.
Margaret refused to take the Oath of Supremacy to swear allegiance to the illegitimate monarch, sealing her fate to die in prison.
Half a millennium later, the Lord Mayor still lives in a massive house in the city and has once again been embroiled in a controversy over faith.
Ireland's ruling anti Catholic Green Party have waited until the last minute to announce that they would not be permitting a nativity scene outside the Lord Mayor's House this Christmas.
The move from Caroline Conroy drew widespread criticism online, with many believing that it was anti Catholicism cloaking itself in concern for animals.
The nativity has been a constant since 1995, with the Irish Farmer's Association and the Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals involved. The event was important for allowing city children to see animals in a way that accustoms them to their importance, where they would not normally find it.
The arrogant Green Party refused to inform the IFA and other parties before the decision was taken.
The extreme pro abortion Green Party were at the forefront of recent efforts to end the Puck Fair in Killorglin, in an effort to strip locals of what they see as an event too steeped in Irish history. The Green Party feigned outrage for the goat involved in order to try to demoralise those involved.
The farmers have said of the donkeys used in the Dublin nativity: “That donkey has been doing the crib for at least 10 years and he’s like a pet. He’s as quiet as a dog you would have in your house.”
One supporter of the decision was quoted as saying:
‘Nativity cribs are far from holy. Sighting the hideous display as something from the darks days of when religion had complete control over Irish society’.
The same individual led the quest against the Puck Fair in Killorglin and is also on record as saying that he wants to ban breakfast rolls. Yes, seriously.
The same individual has been a vocal critic of the Catholic Church, tweeting in 2018 on Ireland’s abortion referendum ‘keeping the 8th is nothing other than to hang on to one of the last bastions of the Catholic Church and control over women! People will see it for what it is!’.
Interestingly, BreakingNews.ie edited out the anti religious part of his words in their report on the matter, reporting: "These animals are confined in very small boring spaces, they're around lights and loud music, and they're often on busy streets, where people are coming along, they're gawking in on top of the animals, they're taking selfies, and they're moving on with their day, and those poor animals are just left there to stand around.
In this day and age, we shouldn't be treating sentient animals in such a way”.
‘Lord Mayor’ Conroy has suggested having a lame ‘interactive display’ instead that includes Santa and a postbox.
Perhaps some of Dublin's churches should take up the nativity responsibility instead of leaving it to the forces of anti Catholic secularism. Or to the whims of people who want to ban breakfast rolls.
It should also be remembered that the Greens despise farmers and that this could be a poke in the eye to the Irish Farmer's Association too.