What a lovely idea Jim! We have a dear little pub in our village called The Fox. As long as you don't mind my husband drinking lemonade (Muslim) Mine's a half of Guinness or bitter!

My mother was from Cork, as I may have said before on other threads. And I used to go to Mass with my Irish cousin, proudly sporting one of her lace mantillas and happily joining in with the Latin. (It was VERY long ago!) But I personally have never been to Ireland. Funnily enough, our window cleaner was here yesterday and had just got back from a long weekend in Dublin. He said it was absolutely fabulous, and the Irish were so friendly and kind.

I'm most interested in cultural influences in various lands, as I think they (and religion of course) more or less control the behaviour and mind-sets of the population. Therefore it's extremely difficult to effect change. It takes time, slogging away around the edges eroding bit by bit the entrenched mores .
But at the centre of any policies must be the welfare of the women concerned. Denying them what women all over the civilised world have the right to is very unfair and cruel.