D-Day for Irish Abortion Referendum. Here are some background vids

[OnDoutside]

Here's one of the political gobshites in action, Mattie McGrath, when they debating this in committee

[barbtries]

1. well worth my time

watching them all, but that last one was really good. talk about a gish galloping jerk.

[OnDoutside]

2. Thanks ! Sadly Mattie is what some in rural Ireland elect, and he isn't the worst of this type of

chancer. Have a quick look at these two brothers from County Kerry, who were also elected to the Irish Parliament - Michael and Danny Healy Rae. A change of accent and they'd fit into Alabama politics without a problem. Michael Healy Rae is the second richest in Parliament, with €5.4m. The No 1 richest, Michael Lowry also represents a rural district and has been in all sorts of scandals over the years.



Here's Michael Healy Rae (with his flat cap schtick - bald !)

And his neanderthal brother, Danny

embarrassingly he got on BBC tv

This is their late father Jackie Healy Rae

[BigmanPigman]

3. I will be keeping my fingers crossed for them.

35 years since the last vote...maybe times are changing.

[OnDoutside]

4. It's looking good based on anecdotal evidence. In Dublin it appears to be

up at Marriage Equality voting levels. There has to be a big win in Dublin to offset the rural areas...a bit like Pennsylvania.

[BigmanPigman]

5. It looks like a landslide so far!!!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142067869#post5

[OnDoutside]

6. Lovin it !

[smirkymonkey]

7. Thanks for posting these clips!

Very interesting, although the last one was really working on my nerves. I think it's going to pass and I hope so. I am so tired of these religious reactionaries trying to foist their narrow minded beliefs on the rest of us.

[OnDoutside]

10. The Healy Raes are opportunists. But even in South Kerry it looks like the vote there is about 58-42

You should do a Google Streetview of Kilgarvan, County Kerry, where the Healy Raes own half the village.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Looked them up. It says they are "Gombeens". The countryside looks very beautiful, it's

a shame they are so backward.

[OnDoutside]

12. Gombeenism is their profession ! That said you go to Alabama or

West Virginia and you'll probably see similar gombeenism.

[Puzzler]

8. The pro-choice campaign has essentially won!!!

Irish anti-abortion campaign concedes it has lost referendum.

Exit polls suggest majority of voters favour repealing 8th Amendment of constitution

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4679371

-Puzzler

[OnDoutside]

9. Not just won, but obliterated the No vote campaign, and the Catholic Church's control.