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

And accepts responsibility for it!!!

Who do these people think they are? The people are responsible for it. The people voted and said no. And here the government’s leader is making out that the result being “wrong” is down to them

I swear to god if I had to choose between Mary Lou and Leo I’d begrudgingly choose Loe because Mary is a complete and utter spoofer.

Be assured, it's not just Donegal.

This woman in the wheelchair is dead right. Catherine Cox from Family Carers Ireland let all us carers down.

He used to be useful in terms of local issues, helped me on occasion but in the last few years he seems to have forgotten that !

Because it’s not the trendy result they and their pals wanted

Indeed. She is a dreadful cabbage

So they planned in advance to not have results because they expected a double no?

More likely, it wasn't a very captivating campaign, there isn't much to cover on the counts as it's just 2 results essentially, and it's not going to have any major cultural changes to society if it passed or failed.

Congratulations to those who voted no. I wasnt expecting it to be so one sided.

One question I have is regarding the pre referendum reports of opinion polls hinting at a landslide Yes. Did these polls even exist? Were they just pushing a Yes?

Better than the other fella... Not a happy camper and close to a tantrum.

The lack of coverage is a message in itself alright. Normally the count updates and commentary would be on all day on RTE News/One.

Today it's very obvious that the bare minimum is being done.

The electorate have to vote for someone. If no party represents the electorate then those parties will still get elected. Thats one reason why these parties have become so arrogant and were caught by surprise today.

I would have voted yes/ no and been very strong that I was against the 42 because it was sexist , ableist and absolved the government responsibility to provide supports to both carers in the home outside the home, and individuals with a disability who want to live their lives independently and as fully as possible .

Both amendments were badly written, badly constructed and did VERY LITTLE to improve equality and supports in our society.

The government have lost because most people could see that it was just a sop to equality and hypocritical dissolution of women , mothers and carer's rights ..we would all still have to go to court to get any provisions from these amendments and it is very possible that the second amendment in particular would have mitigated against ordinary carers looking for access to aid respite etc

The Women's Council Ireland and Family Carer's Ireland need to learn from this ..both have lost ground and respect from their own supporters over this .

I think it's a mistake to label this as an anti government response ,maybe among some voters, but the majority would feel that this was rushed ,badly explained ,and badly conceived, and a very confusing campaign .

Referendums don't tend to alter voters opinions as to government parties in General Elections and are not/ have not ever been an indicator of general voter preferences .

Changes to the Constitution need to be clearer and worth doing ..we have seen before how badly written changes can have a debilitating effect on important laws here in the past .

Complete waste of our tax money