“Confusion” among voters as polling day looms say TD calling for ‘no’ vote
Minister Eamon Ryan has said the removal of the word ‘mother’ from the constitution will make the document “stronger” while calling for a ‘yes’ vote on Friday.
What are we to make of this?
Lawyer for No say there is “no need” to amend constitution to help carers
The constitution was given to us, the electorate, to guard.
It is neat, in a way, that in the same morning we got to see the two faces of our Government. Voters will have to decide which face is the real one.
“It’s an important decision.”
The Conservatives who say that these referendums will discourage marriage are missing the point: this won’t stop anyone getting married – indeed, it will disincentivise commitment-phobic people from baby-farming and expecting the State to pick up the tab.
“Inclusive Ireland.”
“Her opinion here doesn’t matter”: Mattie McGrath TD has said that Minister Catherine Martin’s refusal to retract her false “women in the home” claim, and her “bullish” insistence that she knows better than the Electoral Commission, represents a “subversion of democracy.”
After all, if the independent electoral commission was actually independent, would politicians have been so eager to set it up?
Women Workers’ Union