You’re being a huge weirdo about this. Cool it with the negativity.

The government have to introduce the amendments to the constitution for the people to vote on, there was also a vote on lowering the age at which Irish people can be eligible to be president to 21 but I imagine a lot of voters didn’t vote on that yesterday because the equal marriage vote overshadowed it.

Now that the gay marriage referendum is over we can try and get the government to legislate properly on abortion and give us a real referendum that’s not about threat of suicide but actually about abortion provision. The fact that turnout was so good and this referendum passed bodes well for an abortion referendum.

Can’t we take one day to celebrate how far we’ve come?

to be honest emma, your comment suggests you’re very much out of touch with the way things are in Ireland nowadays. I’m not going to respond to all what you’ve written. I don’t have time. But what I would like to say that there is a positive in having a referendum in that the debate helps to move those who would not…

Birth control isn’t illegal in Ireland. Abortion is but many are unhappy with the hypocrisy of “exporting” our problem to Britain where Irish women travel for legal abortions. The times are a changing though. Homosexuality was only decriminalised here in 1993 and now a very large majority has voted for gay marriage…

Um, we have birth control. Multiple forms, all reasonably priced. Now the abortion thing, we DO need to sort that one out.

Birth control is perfectly legal and this victory gives us a much better chance of getting an abortion referendum passed soon.

You’re ignoring the hundreds of women (and men) fighting that by saying this. There are activists fighting for these. Look up Speaking of IMELDA for a start.

It’s because of the nature of the Irish constitution, this means a government can’t remove this right via legislation.