Abortion aside, Ireland is in fact much more progressive and liberally minded than the US and most of southern Europe. These comments were made during an inter

Abortion aside, Ireland is in fact much more progressive and liberally minded than the US and most of southern Europe. These comments were made during an interview on the Irish public broadcasting network; just for a comparison, in Italy nobody would have even dared to speak their mind so clearly about God on tv, or the show would have likely been cancelled. Twenty years ago the sitcom "Father Ted" became the most popular show in Ireland, and it would be still considered too blasphemous to be aired by any of the major tv networks in Italy.