Yeah, I can see them possibly threatening them like:

I was campaigning in Waterford city and last night us organisers went for dinner together - we took a photo in the apple market with our banner and the smoking area stood up and gave us a round of applause, and a load of people came out of Geoffs to give us more applause. It was amazing, really special 💙💙💙

They wouldn’t even without the current situation. There are several reasons why they really, really don’t want to reinstate direct rule.

Sure we all thought the turnout would be low and it was on a knife edge until like, yesterday! And in fairness, it wasn’t an easy sell, not at all, it was a hard, gruelling, complicated sell, but people listened to all our stories and pleas and arguments and bought it. Yay!

You mean the English government have yet another self-inflicted crisis on their hands? I’ll try to look surprised at this.

Really can’t see that happening. We haven’t been in that place for a very, very long time. An abortion referendum certainly wouldn’t be the catalyst for that kind of thing. It’s in neither the Republican, nor the Loyalist wheelhouse. Loyalists are too consumed with their racketeering, drug dealing, DUP cosy-ups, and…

Oh my god Cork East ye were making us wait!! Can’t complain, though, cause the high turnout was brilliant.

Your point is stellar, the following is also true, sadly:

“It’s terrible that the people of Northern Ireland the United States are effectively held hostage by religious fundamentalism. (a good portion of) The people are so much more socially progressive than their representatives would lead you to believe.”

Just Irish, and it says “Yes for Women” essentially. Tá technically doesn’t mean yes, there’s no actual Irish word for “yes”, tá is the verb to be, so a literal translation would be more like “It is”. But it’s essentially functioning as “yes” here.

The DUP will never change their stance. The SDLP leave it to their members to decide their position and they keep voting against supporting changes to the abortion law. At least the DUP can’t use the petition of concern anymore, but Sinn Féin (oh how I hate agreeing with terrorists) and the Alliance can’t swing it on…

66.4% in favor and 33.6% against is almost the complete reverse of the 1983 referendum that put in the 8th amendment n place (it was 67% for, 33% against back then) and it’s much bigger disparity than the 1995 referendum that made divorce legal that was much, much closer (50.28% for vs 49.72% against).

It’s not Prime Minister, it’s Taoiseach. And yes it’s a GREAT result for us over here. :-D

TaForMna is my favorite hashtag of all time and I was seeing quite a bit of it. People were really energized.

Yeah. Sadly, I don’t think NI will change any time in the near future.

Well, here might be a clue as to why.

So proud to be Irish today. It’s been a long time coming but that was one hell of a resounding yes. The gay marriage result of 62% for yes in 2015 was a stunning victory; I still can’t believe yes to repealing the 8th came in higher at 66.4%. Everybody back home was blown away at the size of the yes vote when the…

They kinda didn’t. Priests and bishops were reguraly making statements and calling for a no vote. Some churches even brought in people from the No campaign to give talks during mass.

No contribution except: FUCK YEAH!!!