Is the Irish Disease More Pervasive Than It Is Across the World?

The abuse of children within church institutions is sometimes referred to as the Irish disease. Is the abuse more prevalent amongst the church in Ireland than it is globally? Or indeed amongst people who have connections to Ireland globally, do you think? Well, Conner, in 2002, I wrote an article for the paper titled An Irish Disease,. question mark, about that very extraordinary phenomenon as it was then. Now, since then, we know it's different. It has come out and emerged with a vengeance throughout continental Europe, throughout the United States of America, throughout Australia, and all these commissions investigating this phenomenon.