This wasn’t just a throwback. In my own age group, those aged between eighteen and twenty-six, 79 per cent went to Mass once a week. Ninety-five per cent of Irish people believed in God, 76 per cent in life after death, 55 per cent in the reality of Hell and 58 per cent in the Devil as a real person.7 Nearly half of Irish people, compared to just a quarter of Europeans generally, accepted the proposition that ‘there is only one true religion’.
lower numbers on the devil and hell?
