not sure it matters much in this country. Would love to know myself .Does divorce have more finality?? or is it just to enable people to remarry?
Proof, if it were needed, that every cloud has a silver lining?So divorce was brought in by bad weather.
Ah - so it was a Dublin [4] conspiracy? Well spotted Sherlock. If, as you claim, some people who were utterly opposed to this amendment were put off voting by a bit of inclement weather then that's their hard cheese.2. The divorce issue is an almost perfect illustration of the way in which our print and broadcast media utterly fail to represent the broad spectrum of views in our population, preferring instead the "Dublin 4" consensus. If the divorce referendum had failed to pass, does any one seriously believe that the media would have remained utterly silent about the possibility having another referendum? In effect, the 50% of the country (at the time) who were against divorce have never had any effective mass media outlet to promulgate their views on the issue.
Then the following suggests that you believe the weather stopped those who were likely to swing to "no" from voting...I didn't say that the weather kept in people who were utterly opposed to divorce (I think that the 'swing' voters were probably far more relevant- not everybody was utterly for or utterly against divorce).
So divorce was brought in by bad weather.
2. The divorce issue is an almost perfect illustration of the way in which our print and broadcast media utterly fail to represent the broad spectrum of views in our population, preferring instead the "Dublin 4" consensus. If the divorce referendum had failed to pass, does any one seriously believe that the media would have remained utterly silent about the possibility having another referendum? In effect, the 50% of the country (at the time) who were against divorce have never had any effective mass media outlet to promulgate their views on the issue.
As MOB pointed out the Referendum result was very close, approx 1 extra vote per ballot box in favour, which shows why it's important to vote. The government spent taxpayers money campaigning for a Yes which is something that, following the McKenna judgement, they cannot do these days.In fact, I'd say in the mid-1990's, Catholic Church versus mainstream media was a fair match in terms of power and influence...more people go to mass regularly than read the Irish Times...
I have been living apart from my husband for 3 years. We have had no normal marital relations for seven years and have not spoken for 5 years even thought we shared the same house.
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