What's going on in Ireland

In response to Michael's question, a reader sent me this:

The heart-breaking matter of child abuse has hit the Church in Ireland.
Over the last few days, Cardinal Connell, the retired Archbishop, has gone to the High Court to seek a judicial review of documents which were given to a state inquiry into the problems in the archdiocese of Dublin. I thought you might be interested in some of the coverage. Headlines for the Irish news over the next few weeks are at www.rte.ie www.unison.ie and www.ireland.com

. . .   The case will begin in the High Court next week. It may end up in the Supreme Court. The media, which is virulently anti-Catholic, have seized on this matter with great glee (at least so it seems to me). Benedict Groeschel reckoned (around 1989) that the Irish media had a greater antipathy to religion than the Soviet media. It's got a lot worse since then. It is near a sine qua non for lots of journalists - you do despise Catholicism, don't you? But of course . . . .

I do not know enough about the media in Ireland to have a sense of whether journalists are as anti-Catholic as my correspondent suggests.  But, if so . . . how sad.