Ireland – Poll: Young urban women giving Yes side referendum edge – but it is a narrow lead

Poll: Young urban women giving Yes side referendum edge - but it is a narrow lead
Poll points to two Irelands split by urban-rural divide, but abortion campaign to go down to wire

Jody Corcoran
May 6 2018

THE abortion referendum looks like it will be passed by a narrow majority but success is by no means certain at this stage, according to the latest Sunday Independent/Kantar Millward Brown opinion poll.

Excluding undecided voters, the poll finds 57pc to 43pc support repealing the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which recognises the equal right to life of the mother and unborn.

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