[sparklite2]

If France was doing this, I’d understand. They never forgave us for liberating them. But Ireland? What did we ever do to them? If they’re trying to give the English a smack, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Of course, their decision to sit out WWII didn’t, either.

[Steve_Seattle]

"If France was doing this, I’d understand. They never forgave us for liberating them. But Ireland? What did we ever do to them?"

I think some of what is happening in Ireland is a reaction to a lot of the clerical abuses that were uncovered during the past 30 years. For many, this discredited Christianity, and gave free reign to all those evils which even a flawed Christianity is able to temper.