Born in 1992

A series of crises in the Catholic Church — revelations about Bishop Eamonn Casey's secret child, the X Case involving a fourteen-year-old rape victim seeking an abortion — sent shockwaves through Irish society. The moral authority of the Church, already weakened, suffered serious damage. The Maastricht referendum passed overwhelmingly.

The Celtic Tiger economic era was beginning, almost imperceptibly at first. Ireland was changing faster than at any point in its history.