For centuries, Ireland was a devoutly Christian country. Its laws, and its people, respected and protected the life of the unborn, as the Magisterium of the Catholic Church unequivocally required, and as was taught in her assemblies.
What went wrong? Snakes indeed, but the snakes were in a congeries called Vatican II. And after the Church left the people, the people left the Church.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nos peccatoribus.
I can tell you. Ireland used to be poor and then in the 1990s American corporations began to offshore there for cheap labor and tax evasion. In return, companies like Google began demanding that Ireland change its “parochial” culture. The gay marriage and abortion referendums were financed by American corporate money. The threat is if Ireland doesn’t do what they want then the corporations will pull out and crash the economy.