Plans for gay ’marriages’ were today denounced as crumbs from the wedding cake by campaigners insisting they don’t go far enough.

IRELAND has become a country obsessed with sex, money and new technologies to the detriment of values that might make us happy, according to one of the country’s leading Christian commentators.

Increasing numbers of Irish people are converting to evangelical Christianity because of its relevance to everyday life, it was claimed today.