This is a short excerpt. The full article was published by The European Conservative, February 2026
Last week, the Irish government released a St. Brigid’s Day video that mocks the Catholic saint while celebrating abortion and gay marriage. The video shows a cloaked figure—a pagan witch—carrying fire from one feminist milestone to the next, boasting images from when Ireland redefined marriage and created a constitutional right to abortion. The Irish government elite confused (or conflated) the Catholic saint with an old Gaelic goddess of the same name. This was not merely a mistake. It is the latest example of the elite’s contempt for Ireland’s Catholic heritage.
The governmental elite continues to consign the Catholic Church and its Christian values to the embers of history. In 2015, it asked Irish voters to define marriage in the Constitution as a union “without distinction as to sex.” A simple legislative amendment would have expanded the rights same-sex couples already had in Ireland. But the elite had to erase Catholicism from Ireland completely, and what better way to do that than to galvanize a population in a deliberate PR campaign against the Church? Atlantic Philanthropies, billionaire Chuck Feeney’s pro-LGBT foundation, which largely funded the campaign, admitted in a 2017 report that it deliberately targeted the Catholic hierarchy to drive a wedge between voters and the doctrine of their faith. Similarly, the pro-abortion campaign in 2018 attacked the Church, following the guiding lantern of ‘St. Brigid the Abortionist.’
Modern Irish history is a cautionary tale for Western nations that take the incessant attack on faith and freedoms lightly. The last five years alone give a flavor of the ashes to which Ireland’s holy fire has been reduced.
Read the full article at The European Conservative.