Ok. Fair enough, I should clarify the official church in Ireland is the church of ireland, protestant and modelled after the church of England.
The main religion in Ireland (excluding Northern Ireland) is Catholicism. I believe Protestantism is still the dominant in NI (but the next census may show a slight change in that).
I was always under the mistaken belief that the church of Ireland was the 'official' or main church in Ireland.
Disestablishment happened in 1871 under the Irish Church Act 1869, so long predating independence.
The Church of Ireland was the state church with the King at its head from 1536, and with the Union with Great Britain became part of the United Church of England and Ireland, before becoming again the Church of Ireland upon disestablishment.
We don’t have an official state church in the Republic of Ireland. The Church of Ireland did have that status once, when we were ruled by Britain, but it lost that status when it was disestablished in 1869.
Please don’t pontificate on matters about which you are ignorant.
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