David Quinn: Ireland might be turning more secular, but we aren’t all atheists yet
Census 2022 showed 69pc of people in Ireland are Catholic, down from 79pc in 2016. Stock image
David Quinn
Are you a “none” — someone who indicated on last year’s census form that you have “no religion”? The rise of the “nones” has been accelerating across the western world in recent years and the phenomenon has now arrived here in earnest.
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