so why do you put my name in quotation marks, Steve? Use them to draw attention to something by all means , but like car horns, quotation marks shouldn't be used to admonish. your's faithfully, mayomick

MGM, I'm sorry if I picked on British TV viewers for special mention -it's just that the link is to a BBC rather than an RTE program. Decontextualizing the past is just as big or is a bigger problem in Ireland and with its media. The Catholic Church was established in Ireland under British rule as a buttress against the republican secularism of the United Irishmen . Things didn't essentially change post-1922 The new rulers of a poor country that had historically been kept backward by its powerful nearest neighbour , continued to dump its orphans into the welcoming , groping hands of the clergy .