Please God, send more atheists
Mar 17th, 2010 | By Ian Poulton | Category: IrelandThe patron saint’s day was being celebrated with great exuberance in the city centre last night. Despite the winter temperatures, there were women out in dresses appropriate to Mediterranean climes; their male companions were in boisterous form.
Until recent years, there would have been ritual clerical condemnation of the excesses, in some quarters there would have been harsh words about such celebration taking place at all. Times being what they are, young people taking too much to drink is a minor misdemeanour when compared with the institutional crimes of the…