Ireland’s ‘no-no’ vote is a victory for human rights – not a rejection of progress | Niamh Ní Hoireabhaird

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1. There will be little appetite for another referendum.

   So a yes vote is a vote for the status quo for the foreseeable future.

   I don’t see this as any kind of victory.

   Nothing has changed and we’re stuck with a provision that has done and will continue to do fuck all with the added shitty sexist language.

   There is shocking ignorance as to what a referendum is. There is no guarantee of “next time”.

2. Happy to see this stance! First article i saw from an english paper last night showed a picture of a woman dressed as a nun – which she’d definitely done in jest/father ted related fashion, but really got a sense of ‘oh ireland and your catholic doctrine, believing the women’s place is the kitchen’ and so on

3. It’s neither. Its a loss for Ireland that we have a government that wasted our time and money to prove how put pf touch they are yet still won’t call an election. 

4. From the sounds of it, it’s more of a colossal pissup due to people not knowing what exactly they were voting for, so they took the safe option of changing nothing. If nothing changes, nothing will happen