Why are Protestant Britain obsessed with the Papal visit to Ireland?

As the Pope, visited Britain a few years back to visit the minority religion there - which was met by intolerance and a nasty campaign by the Guardian - why are the Brits obsessed when he visits here?

Their media appears to be in overdrive patronising cliché mode about "Catholic Ireland", implying that Britain a state religious kingdom, whose government is made up of Protestant anti-Catholic DUPers and who have a fervent past and current history of religious bigotry, presently against Muslims - is somehow a paragon of secularism?

I don't recall the BBC, etc giving any coverage to the reason for protests against their queen's visit some years ago.

They ignored that - about British terrorism, collusion, anti-Irish laws, anti-Catholic discrimination, the concept of royalty.

I also recall, the Irish media and populace respecting the fact that the Queen of England is the Head of a Protestant Church with different practices.

(Incidentally, her visit cost approx 36 million, compared to 5 million for the Pope, and she had the roads cordoned off and all the homeless shipped with the Irish media failing to question anything, less they be accused of being in the IRA).

Have they not forgiven us for choosing our own religion or none?

Their Brexit media haven't shut up about us being a "small insignificant country",
so why do they care about a visit to a foreign country of a foreign religion?

In fact, most of the commenters on their website don't seem to know where Ireland is, or are just simply jingoistic sectarian bigots.

I suspect that their behaviour over the visit is indicative of the typical xenophobic Johnny foreigner, intolerance, ignorance and feigned superiority that brought on Brexit.

They will never learn.

Before any right on bots claims, I'm not working for the Vatican to infiltrate the virgin territory of Boards.ie - just a former history, politics and media student and observer.