As a fellow atheist Irish woman, I resent this lazy attempt at such sectarian stereotyping of the brilliantly intelligent and eloquent Helen Joyce. Yes, we come from a majority (formerly very theocratic) Catholic country but that does not mean that, as Irish women, we don’t have the brains, principles and independence that let us think for ourselves. Many Irish women (and men) support Helen and other GC activists.
This reputation savaging is a combination of the daft idea that women are too stupid to organise on our own (so we always have to have shadowy male backers secretly running everything) with our detractors having reading one too many Dan Brown novels 🙄