{"id":51732,"date":"2025-04-26T09:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51732\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:09:16","slug":"pope-northern-ireland-northern-ireland-is-suddenly-undergoing-profound-shifts-and-the-consequences-could-be-unpredictable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51732\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland is suddenly undergoing profound shifts and the consequences could be unpredictable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Unionism has altered in ways which would have appalled the late Ian Paisley \u2014 and heartened one of his foes who edited the Belfast Telegraph as the Troubles approached\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Comments made this week by Gavin Robinson regarding the death of Pope Francis would have appalled the late Ian Paisley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ic-26Apr2025-ONLINE.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Comments made this week by Gavin Robinson regarding the death of Pope Francis would have appalled the late Ian Paisley<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There are moments in which the axis of normality tilts suddenly. Sometimes, that involves the drama of war or pestilence or famine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At other points, what we think of as routine has shifted imperceptibly and the change only later becomes apparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unionism has altered in ways which would have appalled the late Ian Paisley \u2014 and heartened one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[13744,924,922,1998,6414,1144,21946,6410,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-51732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-catholic-church","9":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","10":"tag-emma-little-pengelly","11":"tag-gavin-robinson","12":"tag-ian-paisley","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-pope-francis","15":"tag-sam-mcbride","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114403486172115861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}