Everything is basically as it was before the Pope arrived here

Pope Francis came and he went. In terms of the past sins visited on the Irish population by the Catholic Church, not a lot of difference was made.

You’d be forgiven for speculating that the Lonely Planet Guide made up the most of the Papal reading list ahead of his trip to the Emerald Isle.

At any rate, the Pope’s visit to Ireland will likely be remembered globally not for anything he did or said while on our shores, but rather for the extraordinary attack he came under while here from within the Catholic Church.