I'd be interested to hear why Ireland is described as "conservative' Catholic" in your headline.
"Catholic"? Nominally, in the sense that the overwhelming majority describe themselves as such when asked in a census or such like. But in practice, not so much. The great majority of people participate in their nominal religion rarely if at all. As the old joke has it, they make it to church only 5 times in their existence, and they have to be carried for the 1st and last of them.
"Conservative"? I'd really like to know in what sense! Social attitudes are pretty much on a par with most of north-western Europe and have been for at least 25 years.
The clichés about Houly Catlick Oireland exist only in the minds of British tabloids and (Mother of God preserve us) US 'Plastic Paddies' puking their rings out on what they are pleased to call "Patty's Day". (*shudder*)
But the Yes vote was great. Anyone who knows anything about Ireland knew the result was pretty much inevitable.
Fast forward to [say] 2024. The incumbent president has been forced into a primary by a rebel in his/her own party over the deeply unpopular privatisation of the interstate highway system that has been used to fund the ever-increasing charges of the security contractors who - it is speculated by Sources Familiar - now receive the bulk of what used to be military funding for the not-war in Syraq, Iran, Kurdistan and East Africa. (Precise facts as hard to come by as information pertaining to T*****ism and N*****al S*****ty are subject to filtration under the Liberty For All Act).
Let us therefore speculate which person will emerge in The Other Party to counter this narrative of negativity and despair. Who will tell the nation that, once again, It Is Morning In America?
I'd be interested to hear why Ireland is described as "conservative' Catholic" in your headline.
"Catholic"? Nominally, in the sense that the overwhelming majority describe themselves as such when asked in a census or such like. But in practice, not so much. The great majority of people participate in their nominal religion rarely if at all. As the old joke has it, they make it to church only 5 times in their existence, and they have to be carried for the 1st and last of them.
"Conservative"? I'd really like to know in what sense! Social attitudes are pretty much on a par with most of north-western Europe and have been for at least 25 years.
The clichés about Houly Catlick Oireland exist only in the minds of British tabloids and (Mother of God preserve us) US 'Plastic Paddies' puking their rings out on what they are pleased to call "Patty's Day". (*shudder*)
But the Yes vote was great. Anyone who knows anything about Ireland knew the result was pretty much inevitable.
Fast forward to [say] 2024. The incumbent president has been forced into a primary by a rebel in his/her own party over the deeply unpopular privatisation of the interstate highway system that has been used to fund the ever-increasing charges of the security contractors who - it is speculated by Sources Familiar - now receive the bulk of what used to be military funding for the not-war in Syraq, Iran, Kurdistan and East Africa. (Precise facts as hard to come by as information pertaining to T*****ism and N*****al S*****ty are subject to filtration under the Liberty For All Act).
Let us therefore speculate which person will emerge in The Other Party to counter this narrative of negativity and despair. Who will tell the nation that, once again, It Is Morning In America?
Please, please PLEASE don't send him to Ireland!
You may as well keep him over there. Hate to say it, but he blends in with the Fox News scenery pretty well!