Since the revelation of the priest sex scandals starting around 15 years ago, there has been a great deal of bitterness expressed towards the Church, in my experience. And also Ireland experienced a huge influx of money and development starting with its joining the European Union twenty years ago or so, and with that dependence came an influx of globalist opinion-makers and also a share of muslim and eastern European migration. And as noted above, George Soros has trained his laser focus on any bastion of Christianity, anywhere, and undermining tradiional Ireland has been a special project of his. It's not the same place as it was, sad to say.
Younger generations became not too interested in tradition, permanence, Family & faith.
I'm still betting that war will break out in Europe before too long.