Tag Archives: The Eighth Amendment

This morning.

Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2

The together for Yes campaign launching a voter registration drive ahead of the deadline on May 8 in the forthcoming referendum to remove the Eight Amendment from the Consitiution.

According to Together4Yes, there are 122,000 young people who have turned 18 since the last General Election with 466,000 people between the ages of 18-25 currently eligible to vote in Ireland “if they are registered”.

Check the register here

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Above: from left: Paddy Connolly, CEO Inclusion Ireland, Evie Nevin, founder of Disabled People Together for Yes , Finian McGrath, Minister of State with Responsibility for Disability Issues, Suzy Byrne, Disability Rights activist and D. Mark Murphy, spokesperson for Together for Yes.

This morning.

A launch by Inclusion Ireland, the National Association for People with Intellectual Disability and Together for Yes in a campaign to remove the Eight Amendment in the forthcoming referendum.

Together for Yes spokesperson Dr Mark Murphy said.

“Women with disabilities often have more complex medical needs. Normal, good medical practice would be that a woman is cared for by her own medical team at home rather than having to travel,”

The founder of Disabled People Together for Yes, Evie Nevin said:

“It is hard enough for able bodied people to access abortion, never mind the added barriers of accessibility, mobility, finances and illness that goes with having a disability.”

Together For Yes (Facebook)

McGrath critical of negative view of disability in referendum campaign (RTÉ)

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This morning.

Kevin Doyle writes:

Yesterday on my way to work the junction of the N81 with Cookstown way/Whitestown way at Tallaght Stadium, had a pretty equal ratio of yes and no posters.

Now at 11am it has none and LoveBoth posters in the place of the Yes ones.

Pictures 1-2 is how it looks now. Picture 3 is of a poster identical to the ones removed.

PS The Yes posters removed were pink as were the No posters that replaced them.

Anyone?

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This morning

Unspecified location, Dublin.

Erica Fleming writes:

I’m really irritated this morning over this poster – it says “if killing an unborn baby at six months bothers you then VOTE NO” – it has a picture of a fully formed baby on it! This is directly outside my child’s school! It’s inappropriate.

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Last night.

Clontarf Castle, Dublin 3.

Several hundred people attended a Pro Life meeting  to hear various speakers, including businessman Declan Ganley, journalist John Waters, Niamh UiBhriain of Save the 8th and Vicki Wall of Every Life Counts, speak in favour of voting No in the Referendum on the Eight Amendment of the Constitution.

Via Independent.ie

Playwright, author and journalist John Waters accused pro-choice campaigners and the media and of using ‘sleight of hand’ tricks “to conceal the truth”.

“We don’t have a press anymore,” he said to more raucous applause.

“Everything is lies, everything is twisted. That’s that you have to get across to people,” he added.

He likened the very notion of holding the referendum on repealing the 8th to the sinister prospect of holding a referendum on exterminating the homeless as a means of dealing with the homeless and housing crisis.

“We don’t have the right to tamper with these things,” he said.;

“If you mark yes (on the ballot), that pencil becomes a knife,” he concluded to a standing ovation.

Gulp.

From top: John Waters and Declan Ganley, John Waters, Declan Ganley, Niamh UiBhriain, Vicki Wall, John Waters and David Quinn.

Monster’ pro-life meeting hears from number of high-profile speakers (Alison brya, Indpendent.ie)

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This afternoon.

Moore Street, Dublin 1

The launch of Amnesty’s ‘It’s Time To Talk’ campaign urging a Yes vote in the referendum on the Eighth Amendment.

From left: Independent Senator Lynn Ruane, Minister for Health Simon Harris, Grainne Griffin, co-director of Together for Yes and Amnesty International Ireland Executive Director Colm O’Gorman.

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This afternoon.

The Davenport Hotel, Dublin 2

Louise Dunleavy with her daughter Ava at a Save the Eighth Press Conference. Louise had a condition called Spinal Epidural Abscess during her pregnancy.

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Yes and No posters in central Dublin.

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