If you’re changing the most basic law of our state and you can’t predict the consequences, people are just going to say, ‘Let’s leave it as it is because at least we know what that means’”

UL's Laura Cahillane discussing the referendum results in the NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/10/world/europe/ireland-constitution-change-voters.html

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Are we getting any sense, on the ground, as to why the two Irish Referendums went the way they did and not the way the marriage equality referendum went? I sense a lack of grass roots mobilisation, particularly by the young. But what other factors came into play? Was it, at least, partly, a vote of dissatisfaction with the government? Was social media a factor?

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Senator Michael McDowell getting a selfie with ethnonationalist agitator Gavin Pepper at the count yesterday #Ref24 #Referendum2024

Remember this when he announces his run for the Áras.

Limerick goes bat crazy as 'Count Ref-ula' removed from count centre https://jrnl.ie/6321964

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The results of the two referendums in Ireland will be posted on this website by the referendum returning officer with an interactive map for each of the two amendments broken down by constituency.

https://www.referendum.ie/

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