The Eighth Amendment

At a joint press conference on Wednesday, No campaigners said that the move was taken out of fear the No side might win. Several prominent pro-life groups held a joint press conference on Wednesday afternoon to discuss a decision made by Google this week that all ads related to the forthcoming abortion referendum will be […]

8 years ago

The war over Ireland’s Eighth Amendment is being fought with streetlights and zip-ties. In late May, Ireland will go to the polls to decide whether to repeal its constitutional ban on abortion — the Eighth Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann. As the country hurtles towards this landmark moment, much of the attention has been focused […]

8 years ago

Next year, Ireland will be faced with a reckoning the likes of which it has not weathered in many decades. As the country prepares for a referendum on Article 40.3.3, widely known as the Eighth Amendment, many are braced for a debate that threatens to cause deep ill-feeling between friends, workplace colleagues and even family […]

9 years ago

The Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis has voted against a motion to support repealing Ireland’s Eighth Amendment. The country is scheduled to have a referendum on repealing the amendment, which effectively renders the government incapable of passing legislation that would allow Irish women access to abortion, some time in 2018. Two motions on the Eighth Amendment […]

9 years ago

The battle over Ireland’s Eighth Amendment is shaping up to be one of the most bitterly divisive in decades. The amendment, which criminalises safe abortion for Irish women in Ireland, is likely to be voted on by the public within the next eighteen months, and people took to the streets today in order to protest […]

9 years ago