You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the Left - read OP

Off the top.of my head. Ban religious instruction in the classroom at the expense of other kids. State teachers teach kids, and the ones that DO want religion can be taken out if the class and taught separately. Especially for sacraments.

Also, ban (or enforce the ban) on preferences to kids from certain religious background.

Just because you own the building doesn't mean you're excempt from obeying the law.

Fine, but I'd wager the housing crisis and the health service are just two issues that I can think of off the top of my head that are of greater importance right now to most people in this country.

Yeah must be my imagination ^

Housing and healthcare supply are evergreen problems. As soon as you solve them the population grows and the problem arises again.

Ridding Ireland of the state establishment of the Roman Catholic Church however…

Evergreen problems?

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here and suggest you don't understand the gravity of the housing crisis here in Ireland.

How would you solve the problem of the Catholic Church's ownership of these school buildings? Do you believe they could be shooed out of the country with no legal recourse?

Fighting the Catholic Church in court is hardly a battle this country needs. They've been essentially neutered by peoples apathy towards them, we don't need to embark upon a moral crusade that has no winners.

Hide behind?

So in your opinion should getting all vestiges of the Catholic Church out of Ireland be the main priority for the Irish government and by extension Irish society?

Forget building houses and improving hospitals we need to get the Catholic Church out once and for all.

I'm sure all the homeless people and people on hospital trollies are afforded the same sort of moral absolutism you're so keen for us as a nation to embrace.

Saying we have more pressing issues to deal with is a sure fire way to never deal with that issue.

The church still owe a fortune in unpaid compensation to their various victims. The sweetheart deal the govt made should never have been made (the church were ordered to pay €1.3bn, but the govt said they’d cover the vast majority. The church had to pay €128m and only paid €85m.

Thats the time land should have been seized to pay for the compensation instead of the government letting them off. That land could have been turned into social housing, to help deal with one of the bigger issues.

Its fair to say that I do hate the church. Not the vast majority of the people within it, but the organisation itself. I think it is one of the most cruel, evil organisations on the planet, if I could kick out Catholicism from schools tomorrow, I absolutely would.

What rights would the Catholic Church have to taxpayer funds with an establishment clause?

Are you suggesting that the constitution of Ireland be changed to circumvent this issue?

There are existing binding agreements in place with regards to these buildings.

For reference the church would have built most of these schools at a time when the Irish state, still in its infancy and financially feable was unable to undertake the construction of such infrastructural projects as schools and hospitals, hence the influence of the church being introduced.

The red tape and legal battles it would take to solve this issue wouldn't be worth the hassle and expenditure to the state.

Sure why not amend it? Just repealed the 8th not long ago. And establishment causes are not unconventional. The constitution pre-empts any lower legal arrangements.

You can hide behind prioritisation if ypu want, but my ideas would be fair and effective.

In any case, the health service is always in crisis and the housing problem won't go away any time soon. We can't just ignore everything else.

That kind of went off on an education tangent and I failed to stop it, so my bad on that one.

But the point I was making is that the attitudes that are left over from the church's heyday are the threat - and you can see a lot of them in this thread. Left this, liberal that, progressive the other - but as soon as you try and pin down examples of what they mean, the go quiet and can't elaborate. People used to be able to fall back on "God said..." or "it's in the Bible", but the non-theists don't even have that.

They are completely oblivious to the fact that they've simply plied their blind faith and ignorance into a different diety and have the same lack of logic or informed thought.

Hold on. You say above that the Church have lost most of their influence while a few posts ago you claimed they were so powerful that nobody would put them in the dock for the “murder” of 800 children.

You have stated both positions. Which do you believe?

That wasn’t the claim.

The claim was that the Roman Catholic Church murdered 800 children and will not be brought to justice because of their influence.

Do you agree with this claim?

The report into the Tuam babies scandal can be found here https://assets.gov.ie/118565/107bab7e-45aa-4124-95fd-1460893dbb43.pdf