[nathanbedford]

The analysis is flawed because it fails to explain Ireland in any terms other than cloth and anticlericalism. There is another cancer which has grown in Ireland for a century, communism or at least Marxism which contributed so much to the secularization of the island.

[Louis Foxwell]

While mentioning booze in passing the article gives little shrift to debauchery as a significant and substantial influence. Marxism promotes immorality by its incessant attack on the church. Much as in mother Russia criminal cabals will now begin their final assault on dear old Ireland.

[markomalley]

There is another cancer which has grown in Ireland for a century, communism or at least Marxism which contributed so much to the secularization of the island.

There are those who would think that both are inexorably connected.

[fwdude]

There is another cancer which has grown in Ireland for a century, communism or at least Marxism which contributed so much to the secularization of the island.

That may be the case, but indirectly, it came through Leftist Great Britain, due to its close proximity.

Infections aren't contained by political borders. We aren't exempt either. The Windsor decision came straight to us from factors that originated in Canada.