Really, Ireland has been ultraleftwing for awhile now. I’m more surprised that there’s still this cultural perception of them as any sort of Catholic country and they haven’t overturned the ban already.
There are videos on YouTube in which people from various countries react to American things like sports, food, TV shows, etc. and vice versa. The Irish used in the videos seemed to have an attitude that they were better than Americans & seemed to look down on us. It made me sad as someone who has relatives that came from Ireland and who never looked at Ireland in that way. I got the feeling from them that Ireland is quite liberal. Ireland isn’t the same country today that it was when that law was put in place.