Joe - please do not try to score points - you're better than that.
Yes - I have only lived in Ireland for 10 years. My family left Ireland for England during the famine and have continued to live in both places ever since.
You only lived in America as a Catholic - you didn't live in Catholic America - a not too subtle difference. Remind us again - how long have you spent in Ireland?
Every movement WAS monitored and controlled by the Catholic church.
I have just been reading of the murder which took place in Sligo forty years ago and was never properly investigated because the chief suspect was a priest. Yesterday I read of the church selling a field (to a building developer) containing many bodies of children denied Christian burial by that same church because they had died too early to be baptised.
I think I'm going to take Bonnie's advice and refrain from posting while I am angry.
Watch this space
Jim Carroll