A new paper released by The Iona Institute has confirmed what many faithful Catholics in Ireland have felt instinctively for years: the country is drifting far from the basic social foundations that once gave it strength, stability, and a future. Titled On the Wrong Course: Birth, Marriage and Family Trends in Ireland, the report shows that both marriage and fertility rates have now sunk to their lowest recorded levels outside of the pandemic years—and the consequences are not just cultural or spiritual, but deeply demographic.