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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIrish vote to liberalise divorce laws by wide margin
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-48410903People in the Republic of Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of liberalising divorce laws, in a referendum held on Friday.
The constitution currently states that spouses must be separated for four of the previous five years to divorce.
But that clause will now be removed, allowing the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) to decide a new separation period before divorce is allowed.
Divorce was legalised in Ireland in 1995.
The country voted in the 1995 referendum by a margin of just 50.3%.
In Friday's poll, with two of 31 constituencies still to declare, voters backed a change to the law by 82.1% to 17.9%, according to results
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Irish vote to liberalise divorce laws by wide margin (Original Post)
Demovictory9
May 2019
OP
with a lot of places going backwards in the world it seems like Ireland is one of the countries
JI7
May 2019
#1
A bit of it is to stick it to the Catholic Church, as in you're no longer the masters over us.
OnDoutside
May 2019
#4
JI7
(89,172 posts)1. with a lot of places going backwards in the world it seems like Ireland is one of the countries
that is improving.
OnDoutside
(19,905 posts)4. A bit of it is to stick it to the Catholic Church, as in you're no longer the masters over us.
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)5. Those horrible revelations have shaken loose the obedience to vatican
The revelations regarding bodies buried at the nunnery and other scandals
OnDoutside
(19,905 posts)6. As horrific as that was, it was the cover up by the Church afterwards that was the killer. It
left people thinking, how could you possibly trust the Church again ? Sunday mass going has gone from 80+% to about 30%. People have voted with their feet.
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)7. Wow. 80% to 30%
OnDoutside
(19,905 posts)8. Yes and the majority are over 50 years old.
murielm99
(30,655 posts)2. They certainly are!
I remember when contraceptives were illegal there.
OnDoutside
(19,905 posts)3. Yes, and the "Women's Libbers" took the train from Dublin to Belfast to buy contraceptives, openly
challenging the Gardai to arrest them !