When Irish citizens became the first in the world to vote for same-sex marriage in 2015, the constitutional referendum was accompanied by a grassroots roar that sent ripples across the globe. Three years later, the shackles of Catholic Ireland were further rattled when Mná na hÉireann (the women of Ireland) galvanised an overwhelming majority to overturn our constitutional ban on abortion.
The pièce de résistance would be the deletion of article 41.2, the antiquated provision in the Irish constitution that says the state shall endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.
