You are wasting your breath Jim, trying to explain the power which the Catholic Church wields in Eire to someone who is totally ignorant of the situation and doesn't care to find out.

A measure of that determination to stick mindlessly to an insupportable view, is the lack of acknowledgement of the fact that all but a tiny minority were born there and had no choice in the matter.

Some people will never learn because they already know everything, based upon what they choose to believe.

Don T.