“Exhausted legislators applauded Fridays 127-31 vote, while outside the parliament gates abortion rights activists cheered as they watched the result on their smartphones. “
Who needs Oliver Cromwell or potato famine? The Irish will just as easily have liberalism do the killing of them.
Indeed this seems true, sadly. The Irish are so Hell bent to earn the esteem of the “cool kids” on the Continent that they gleefully allow their ancient and admirable culture to collapse around them. What the New Model Army and the wall at Kilmainham couldn't destroy the Irish will throw away like litter. De Valera and Pearse, God rest their souls, must be in mourning today.