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Dublin, Dec 16 (EFE) .- (Camera: Francisco Javier Aja Ortega) Ireland, once a beacon for Catholicism in Europe, has undergone a profound modernization process in the last five years, softening its anachronistic restrictions on divorce and abortion or legalizing same-sex marriage.Kerstin Mey, 57, has become the first woman to preside a university in the country in 428 years, as she took the reins of the public university in Limerick, Southern Ireland, last July.FOOTAGE OF THE UNIVERSITY AND SOUNDBITES OF KERSTIN MEY.

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