The Irish Abortion Referendum

I’m there to offer a conciliatory “ah lads”.

Can we take a moment to laugh at Leo please?

"I always get a little buzz from voting, it just feels like it is democracy in action," Mr Varadkar said after emerging from the polling station at Castleknock.

alright for him he presumably has access to pills

apologies to darragh for the amplified yanks. and best of luck with the vote, lads

Will they do the thing like in brexit where each location read off the vote count?

we'll know pretty much from the first exit poll tonight. wverything else is detail but i think tallies will come in location by location

i don't hold the yanks that travel against the rest of ye tbf theyre hardly representative of usilx youd think

My constituency is the anti-Newcastle or Sunderland, they’ll be counting the vote til dinner time. 😑

xp they're sadly representative of my own state's legislative actions right now and I'm fuming

It’s also ok to bitch about American No campaigners tbf, you know, seeing as they’re actively trying to deprive people of rights in their own countries. Like, nobody meant all Americans so we don’t need to #notallamericans

yes it's true

I think we can probably count on the Dublin constituencies for a strong Yes, but sadly I feel Roscommon won’t be on its own this time.

The Irish Times will publish a referendum exit poll later this evening. The exit poll is being conducted by Ipsos/MRBI among 4,000 respondents at 160 polling stations in every constituency. RT?

— Conor Pope (@conor_pope) May 25, 2018

yaay no tubbers

hoping for the best (yes vote obviously) and a united motherland during these testing times

also had i known would've donated to a fund that would've allow irish citizens abroad to go and vote yes

ah, nobody said #notallamericans, I'm just sad that these buffoons are doing their shtick abroad

I mean, if you wanted to do the kindness of letting them stay for a while... kidding, kidding

yaay no tubbers

I’m glad someone sane stepped in to deprive him of that announcement.

On the minus (plus?) side, I’ll just have to start drinking a lot earlier.

It’s also ok to bitch about American No campaigners tbf, you know, seeing as they’re actively trying to deprive people of rights in their own countries. Like, nobody meant all Americans so we don’t need to #notallamericans

Considering Ireland has been begging the US for handouts for years, I can't get as "Americans should butt out of Irish affairs" about these awful dead-eyed youngsters as other people might. It's just payback for all that "please invest in little Ireland, sure look, here's a cardboard cutout of President Bartlett" guff that goes on at the US gates in Dublin Airport, which makes me cringe every time I go down those escalators.

Anyway, who had "teatime surge" in the bingo? Because I think we've had that from the Irish Times now.

Trying to get fdi means we have to look the other way at almost certainly illegal behaviour from pressure groups outside the state aimed at depriving women of human rights? Huh, who knew!

Ah yes, you are right. Thanks. I am schooled now.

note: I made the americanize comment above because F and darraghmac often lament that the board is too american.

Considering those antis are sending their flying monkeys to Ireland, the UK (where they’re financing interventionist foetus bullshit outside clinics) and most poisonously, to carry out ‘missionary work’ in Africa, fuck them trying to interfere while pretending to the US that they are not interventionist at all (unless they’re passing the basket in church).

68% yes according to Irish Times exit poll...

I just saw. How accurate is that exit poll? They only surveyed 4000. Is that enough? I so badly want that to be true.

have IPSOS fucked up any exit polls recently?

hope to fuck that the exit poll is accurate

If, and I stress if, those exit poll stats are true, it’s incredible.

Even Connacht-Ulster, expected to be the bulwark of the anti-repeal vote, voted in favour of the constitutional change by 59 per cent to 41 per cent, the poll finds.

Christ.

Among the youngest voters, support for the change was overwhelming – the poll finds that 87 per cent of those aged between 18-24 voted for repeal.

Unreal.

Even Connacht-Ulster, expected to be the bulwark of the anti-repeal vote, voted in favour of the constitutional change by 59 per cent to 41 per cent, the poll finds.

Please!

Clearly so moved I posted the same stat twice.

They'll be telling us Roscommon voted Yes next.

evenin all

So you're here in SF, you say.

what a time to be alive

i am home in dub ned

tomorrow is another day

Clarity. (I will not be here tomorrow, sadly, but if you're around past Tuesday, drop a line.)

off towards oregon!

she has a tight tour schedule this time else youd have gotten a mail weeks ago, rest assured

All good. Back to the referendum news.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeEu6-wWkAMig-I.jpg

RTE EXIT POLL: YES 69.4% #8thRef

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) May 25, 2018

thw hateful 8th indeed

my mate has been heavily involved in the campaign, so pleased for her. cilliam murphy sent the campaign office a cake. good lad.

* cillian

https://twitter.com/ellenmcoyne/status/10001278646987366
This is such an interesting point

The citizens assembly was 64%, it was portrayed as an unrepresentative anomaly.

— Ellen Coyne (@ellenmcoyne) May 25, 2018

69.4%

sorry but

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE

The AMOUNT of replies to that last tweet simply saying ‘nice’. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have a lot to answer for…

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) May 25, 2018

Thank you Ireland for voting well.

well 8th you brought me a very nice half-sister, conceived when my mum was 14, in what would be considered an incident of statutory rape and child abuse under current UK laws, so yeah you can fuck right off forever now, please!

I love my stupid country

Well done folks

Good.

oh it gets better and better

As reported by @morningireland,
Yes vote: Fine Gael - 74%, Sinn Fein - 74%, Labour - 80%, Greens - 88%, Fianna Fail - 49% #RepealedThe8th

— Delna (@Delna_42) May 26, 2018

may it crush them again