YOUR TV PROGRAMME DURING THE WEEK MARY... WHAT WAS IT REALLY ALL ABOUT?

FORMER president Mary McAleese’s programme about modern Irish families on RTÉ television this week is likely to have left every thinking adult in the country scratching their heads. What was it all about? Different families, some religious, some not, traditional and ‘modern’, divorced, co-habiting and mixed race.

Okay. But, who in Ireland was unaware of that as the new reality?

So, one more time – what was that really about?

church critic: Mary McAleese at Dublin Castle to hear the Pope speak yesterday