evidence: The official language, Gaelic, which we call Irish, is spoken by less than 10% of the population. Another 10% speak Polish … maybe because a former Pope was Polish. Perhaps a further 10% now speak Spanish. If the next Pope were to be elected by Catholics rather than Cardinals she would almost certainly be Irish-American. America is a large landmass off the west coast of Ireland, where 41million people claim to be wholly or partly Irish, including their current leader, one of the Moneygall, Co Offaly, O’Bamas. Ireland is an island to the west of Britain but Northern Ireland, according to most of its population, is British and that it’s just off the mainland! Of course, they don’t mean the Irish mainland, which it is part of, but the British mainland, which it is not part of.