@Alex A To be fair Irish people have listened to the national broadcaster (RTE) as their source of news for decades. Their Catholicism was taken like a frog in a pot, slowly heated and boiled alive. Their faith was attacked from all sides, priests who came out from the seminaries poorly formed with what seemed like a different faith, leaders in the church that were ill-equipped by life to deal with the child abuse scandals and a constant bombardment of left-wing anti-catholic propaganda. Very few made it with their faith intact

in 1987 a law was passed that every radio station had to have 10 per cent of their programs dedicated to current affairs. This meant a 5-10 min "news" update every hour. A local radio station can't produce that much content by itself so it naturally will follow the lead of RTE which was originally a very conservative station. When RTE changed slowly to a socialist liberal output it took the country with it.

It's now a country that accepts anything and everything and those who resist are labelled far-right extremists. To find Irish catholicism I would go to SSPX, The Latin Mass Society of Ireland or any Dominican chapel.

Personally, I think that the Devil targeted Ireland with its powerhouse army of daily rosary reciters. Once the rosary fell the family and country fell.