Two articles in The Irish Times this week show the contrast between the difference between the Ireland of the West British imagination and the Ireland of reality.
In the former, Fintan O’Toole has written the usual past shaming Angela’s Ashes diatribe under the subheading ‘Ireland’s present is not perfect but the past was grim’.
For the elites like O’Toole, the grimness of the present easily escapes their attention, for whatever reason.
As happened in the past, those involved in the church have no such luxury.
On Christmas Day, the Knights of Saint Columbanus prepared over 4,000 dinners to be distributed to those in need in Ireland’s glorious secular golden age.
A further 300 sat down for dinner inside the RDS.
Many of those in need were homeless, discarded by Ireland’s secular regime.
It is not necessary to brag, but it is important to say that Catholics make Ireland a better place and always have done.
