Amendments will update references to makeup of a family and women’s ‘life within the home’
Vote count begins after referendums to modernise Ireland’s constitutionAgence France-Presse in DublinIreland has begun counting votes after a double referendum on proposals to modernise constitutional references to the makeup of a family and women’s “life within the home”.
All the major political parties support a “Yes-Yes” vote and until recently polls predicted a smooth passage for both. The two proposals – called the family amendment and the care amendment – would make changes to the text of article 41 in the Irish constitution, written in 1937.
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