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MADem

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5. I doubt that. The Catholic churches in southern Ireland are empty.

Reply to Ex Lurker (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 02:18 AM

Jun 2016

They've gone from 95 percent participation to four percent in the last several decades.

The scandals of sexual abuse and the Magdalene Laundries have put a lot of people off.

You can get birth control in southern Ireland now--the church hierarchy holds no sway.

The south is with the EU--the north wants to stay with the EU. If they stay with Britain, and leave the EU, they will have to put up a wall again--close that border.

It'll just depend on if the North feels they will do better economically as part of the EU or part of the UK.

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