Lyric discussion by PrettyVacantMuch? 

Cover art for Banana Republic lyrics by Boomtown Rats, The

About Ireland and how corrupted and run by priests and police it was. Totally under the Catholic Church's and Police's thumbs back then and still today.

@PrettyVacantMuch? Exactly spot on, We fought out the British, succeeding in our revolution however, was there really a true parliamentary exchange between London and Dublin beyond what appeared on the surface? The exchange of power went from the British colonists straight to the Catholic Church who ruled everything including the police. Especially from the 1940s to the late 1980s.

Wouldn't it be interesting if the Catholic Church and any other church for that matter, had to pay taxes on income? How would homelessness across the world change?

Even a really simple immediate low-cost gesture of using the Catholic church's...