Not much meaning to this. What depresses me about Ireland is that the Irish, faithful to their Church under hundred years of oppression, have sold it for a mess of liberal modernism.
Even in this country the Irish priests, who were the backbone of the Church here, went soft and liberal after Vatican 2. Sure and it's a sad business.
Mary McAleese is a practicing Catholic. She has worked with the Catholic Bishops and is pretty conservative. She worked for RTE (Irish TV) News/Current Affairs in the 1970's when the place was essentially a branch office of a group called "the Workers' Party" - you can guess who, it emerged later, was funding them in the 70's and 80's (hit it wasn't CATO Institute) and was a lonely reasonable voice there.
'Tis.