Referendum Commission
94 results

Referendum on extending presidential vote ‘highly unlikely’ this year
- Politics
- October 10, 2019, 20:01
A referendum to give voting rights to Irish citizens living outside the State in presidential elections is now unlikely to take place until the new ye(...)

Referendum commission set up over extending presidential vote to emigrants and North
- Politics
- September 27, 2019, 06:46
A Referendum Commission has been set up to advise the electorate on the upcoming ballot on allowing Irish citizens in the North and emigrants to vote (...)

Divorce referendum to reduce required wait period passes by huge margin
- Politics
- May 25, 2019, 16:37
The constitutional referendum on divorce passed in the early hours of Sunday morning with 82.07 per cent support, one of the largest margins of victor(...)

Divorce vote: ‘We’re changing the Constitution that people died for’
- Crime & Law
- May 14, 2019, 15:56
People in Ireland do not vote because when the Government gets an answer it does not want, it makes people vote again, the chair of the Referendum Com(...)

Breda O’Brien: Abortion railroading is a threat to our democracy
- Opinion
- November 10, 2018, 05:00
Some 723, 632 people voted against the removal of the Eighth Amendment. By way of comparison 544,230 people gave their first preference in the 2016 el(...)

Breda O’Brien: Attempts to liberalise abortion under way
- Opinion
- September 22, 2018, 05:00
Before the referendum on the Eighth Amendment, the Referendum Commission told people they were not voting on any particular form of legislation. Ever(...)

Referendum on ‘sexist’ reference to women’s place in the home postponed
- Politics
- September 5, 2018, 13:34
The referendum to remove a reference in the Constitution to the woman’s place in the home has been postponed, Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan co(...)

State entitled to costs in abortion referendum legal challenge
- High Court
- July 24, 2018, 12:51
The State and Referendum Commission are entitled to their legal costs, estimated at more than €200,000, of successfully opposing two separate bids to (...)

Referendum commission to oversee blasphemy poll announced
- Irish News
- July 20, 2018, 23:45
A referendum commission has been set up to oversee the upcoming referendum on proposals aimed at removing a constitutional provision which outlaws bla(...)

Applications to challenge abortion referendum result rejected
- High Court
- July 20, 2018, 16:14
The president of the High Court has refused two separate applications for permission to bring petitions challenging the Yes result of the abortion ref(...)