Oooops — I MADE A MISTAKE — bad — I APOLOGIZE :(
The country I was talking about in that post was NORTHERN IRELAND.
I wrote **Republic of Ireland** — BY MISTAKE. [should have just gone to bed.]
Which gives an entirely different meaning to it all.
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I guess all of NORTHERN IRELAND identifies as British, being as it is part of UK.
FYI I happened to hear, a few years ago, that the number of Catholic school children has surpassed number of Protestants.
Have continued to wonder what the P’s will get around to changing to keep things in their favor :(
The Priests, at www.thepriests.org !SonySuperstars, 3 Catholic Priests, who have sung around the world and for 3 Popes, from Northern Ireland, so admittedly intelligent.
Have a story of being refused to be sent to school after grade school, because unqualified. Like how they handled the Catholics. If family wanted anymore education, they had to pay for it themselves :(
Northern Ireland is in the same odd situation as Scotland now; England has voted to leave the EU but N. Ireland and Scotland want to remain in it. “United” Kingdom my arse...
The Protestant “majority” only exists if you count Hindus, Muslims, etc. as “Protestant”; Catholics have been the largest denomination in Northern Ireland for many years now.