Things have improved slightly, but many people of both religions want to hang on to the old divides as it means retaining personal power and influence.
The only real old divide is the continued English stranglehold on Irish territory that should have been sceded back to Ireland.
History shows its not that simple. For a start, the English originally went over that at the invitation of one of the Irish kings to help him maintain power. Later, that presence was endorsed by the Pope of the time as the English crown at that stage was Catholic..
Come forward to today, and the Catholic and Potestant divide has little to do with the main land UK, except we step in from time to time to stop them slaughtering each other as happened in 1969..
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