This particular post will concentrate on the columnist Ian O'Doherty (specifically his column of Tuesday 24 February), who writes a regular weekday column for the Irish Independent satirisng popular and celebrity culture in (what many would deem) an offensive way... However I find it hilarious!
O'Doherty's stories usually focus on bizarre stories from around the world, such as today's which includes thirty workers at BT in Britain being suspended after an Irish joke did the rounds at their company and they were accused of being culturally insensitive and offensive, but this is just (as O'Doherty states) "the usual rubbish cooked up by the Equality Industry."
Another story included is that of a Satanist in America disowned by the Church of Satan over drug use, which O'Doherty describes simply with "Wow - you know you've hit rock bottom when even the Church of Satan wants nothing to do with you."
O'Doherty's style is satirical and seems to offend and distribute judgment irrespective of gender or religion or conventional categorisation in general - he discriminates indiscriminately, to put it simply.
He also occasionally recommends certain things to his readers, such as picking up a copy of "Dexys Midnight Runners' classic Don't Stand Me Down", while naming it as "the greatest Irish album of all time."
His style includes exaggeration such as conceding the parents who launched a complaint about a one-armed girl on television "have a point - maybe if we started to round up these people, we could prevent them from offending our aesthetic sensibilities. And after them, we could go after the blind and the deaf. And then gingers. And then people from Cork and then... oooh, the possibilities are endless."
Looking forward to reading more of this genius!
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