Their Banner The Cross

Enda Kenny (a TD since 1975, so condemned out of his own mouth) is cheered on by the Irish Times not once, but twice.

But balance is provided by the Belfast Telegraph, which points out, among other things, that only the most extreme anti-Catholic regimes have ever legislated to break the Seal of the Confessional.

Let there be no doubt in which part of Ireland the Faith is now safer. Indeed, there is no such doubt, with 52 per cent of Northern Ireland's Catholics, and rising with each succeeding generation, committed to the continuation of the Union.