March 8th - What’s your vote? **Mod Note In Post #677**

They won't be successful. This is nonsense and lies.

Any supreme court case would have to look at the legislatures intention.

Peader Tobin very clear , concise , eloquent he is wiping the floor with OGorman.

OGorman doesn't even know what his own referendum is about. We have coalition contradicting each other Left right and centre when a micro phone is put in front of them.

Yes voters be careful what you vote for.

So it’s Yes - Yes from

FF, FG, Labour, Greens, Sinn Fein, Social Dems.

Its a No - No from

Catholic Church, Aontu, Fringe/trouble makers/wind up merchants.

The new wording may not be perfect but it’s better than what is there at present.

Personally, I tend to lean towards voting Yes in any referendum. The constitution needs to evolve and modernise. My dead grandparents are not the ones who should be shaping the present. Likewise my viewpoints will be old hat when my unborn grandchildren are running the show. They should feel free to change the constitution to suit their world.

If there was a supreme court challenge on what defines a durable relationship they would have to examine the Dail and Seanad debate.

Cases to recognise polygamy would be thrown out.

Constitutional expert Oran Doyle

Potentially negative consequences that no one knows about?

Id never get out of bed in the morning if I lived my life like that.

The govs whole argument now is resorting to emotional blackmail they are all trotting out " think of the children this Sunday if it's a no vote" pretty pathetic tactic

Abstain.

It's a well meaning referendum that was intended to mask over decades of government intransigence and neglect but ended up in a badly-communicated clusterfuck. I still can't see any real positives to the changes as described so I'm pretty ambivalent about it. Besides, my polling station is 20 miles away and I'm not arsed going near the M50 on a Friday.

Pretty surprised to see the No vote is so strong - I wasn't expecting that tbh

I was commenting on “potentially negative consequences that nobody knows about”.

of course there may be potentially positive consequences that nobody knows about either. It is better to base your vote on known facts rather than ‘what might be’ or conjecture.

I think part of the reason the government are so bloody awful in these debates is that they probably didn't anticipate either referendum being this close i.e. why even need defend it?

People have an unconditional bias towards voting "Yes" without having a clue on what they're voting for (as a poster here just admitted) - "change is good" / "progress" / fixing something that was broken etc. etc., I reckon this bias gives "Yes" a +5% advantage out the gate, so if a No even edges it, this should be considered an absolute hiding to this shambles of a government.