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Indeed. The leader who most cow-towed to the Catholic Church here was Douglas Hyde. Who was Protestant. Seemed desperate to impress them at all times, probably set the country back some years as a result... Erskine Childers jr. made moves towards that also, but died in office so never got to...

And removing Section 28; but the allegedly Catholic prime minister and president here in 1993 had no issues signing off on the decriminalisation bill; indeed the president in question had been the trial lawyer on the court case that forced its drafting... That said Robinson was never popular...

According to Sky News, Blair converted last night. Was there any legal reason he couldn't do this while PM? If not, its somewhat... strange that he held off until he'd faded from the public eye a bit.