A very different Ireland.
The challenges facing Ireland's young people have changed markedly in the past 60 years.
Modern Ireland is a long way from the vision of one of its former statesmen, Eamon de Valera. In a notable radio broadcast in 1943, later much mocked, he envisaged "fields and villages joyous with the sounds of industry, with the rompings of sturdy children, the contests of athletic youths and the laughter of comely maidens..."
Urbanisation, the remarkable growth of the Irish economy, the decline of the Catholic Church and the fact that Ireland now imports rather than exports people has changed all that, although Gaelic sport continues to thrive.
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