Pat Leahy: One way or the other, the referendum will change Irish politics

Pat Leahy: One way or the other, the referendum will change Irish politics
A Yes vote will alter the political landscape; a No vote could upend it

May 19, 2018
Pat Leahy

Next Friday’s referendum will be an enormously consequential event for Irish society. But it will also have immediate political consequences which very few of the political class appear to have thought through.

Whatever the result, it will change Irish politics. Lots of people say: but the marriage referendum didn’t change anything in politics. They’re right. It didn’t. But I think this referendum will.

Continued; https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/pat-leahy-one-way-or-the-other-the-referendum-will-change-irish-politics-1.3500411

19.05.2018

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

Ireland – Government may fall before abortion legislation passes

Pat Leahy: Government may fall before abortion legislation passes
Faltering Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil relations put election in mid-distance

April 27, 2018
Pat Leahy

No election or referendum, especially a referendum in this country, is a foregone conclusion until the votes are counted, but last week’s Irish Times opinion poll suggests that the Yes side is firmly in the driving seat in the abortion referendum campaign.

Our poll was mirrored in a Sunday Times poll published a few days later and in private research conducted in recent weeks.

Continued: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/pat-leahy-government-may-fall-before-abortion-legislation-passes-1.3476609

27.04.2018