Just a couple decades ago Ireland was one of the most catholic and conservative countries of Europe.
What happened?
They imported a bunch of Earth’s problem children, don’t you know.
As a famous Irish-American once observed:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
--Ronald Reagan
With education and the European Union both being Leftist in philosophy, Ireland was poised to shift to the Left if and when circumstances provided an opening. Then, sadly, the sins of the Catholic Church in Ireland provided such an opening in the form of definitive and detailed revelation of clerical sexual abuses and harsh policies in charitable institutions for minors.
As if a dam had fallen, support for the Catholic Church in Ireland collapsed, as did political support for conservative policies and the leaders aligned with them. As elsewhere, the bishops of the Catholic Church apologized but were unable to make sufficient amends or explain if and how reforms would mean that such abuses would never recur.
With the faithful painfully aware of the Church's pink priest mafia problem and that it has not been addressed, few are now willing to trust the clergy with their children or to look to them for moral guidance. And with the equivocal and Leftist Pope Francis in the Vatican, potential conservative and traditionalist reformers in the Catholic Church are suppressed, not just in Ireland, but almost everywhere else.
What profits a nation to give its soul to the devil. We ate finding out. Misery self-identifying as pride and gay.