The mania in Ireland for believing that everything that happened before yesterday was old, archaic, tainted with Catholic values and therefore must be ditched in the nearest dumpster continues apace.
It has been announced that next year Ireland will mark International Women’s Day with a referendum proposing to erase the word "woman" from the Irish Constitution. All in the name of "progress", as usual.
I, however—along with many others—happen to believe that some things that are old continue to have value, and that change should be both slow and subject to careful scrutiny. So I’m out on a limb as usual in relation to the current zeitgeist in Ireland.
