Irish Examiner View: Saying yes to secular option as Catholic marriages fall to 43.6%

And all the while life continues. Our world is, almost by the day, changing dramatically because of the pandemic. Some suggest unalterably though that, despite the best of intentions and very good evidence demanding change, remains to be seen. The pandemic demands nearly all of our attention, resolve and energy — resources too — but life as we knew it continues almost in parallel. The greater challenge of climate collapse persists, social evolution continues.

Central Statistics Office figures confirm a scale of change in our behaviour that may not yet be fully recognised is accelerating. Its implications have yet to ripple across other behaviours though that change can hardly be too far away.