Referendums

Officials in Minister for Public Expenditure’s office cautioned colleagues in Minister for Equality Roderic O’Gorman’s department on State’s ‘mandatory obligation’

Recent referendums have been the main focus of the public’s attention this last month as housing and immigration slip into second and third place

Minister for Social Protection looking at a review of means tests and various payments

The results raise questions over the future of these exercises in deliberative democracy

HSE acknowledged ‘significant unmet need’, with Sinn Féin calling for ‘massive’ funding increase

Overwhelming No-No vote in the referendums does not mean social change has stalled

The sneering backfired on the Yes side

In Ireland invisible carers save the state €20 billion each year. When my five-year-old son, Ted, was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2022, I became one of them

David McWilliams: Political centre must offer something to those who cherish liberal values, openness, tolerance and decency

Does last week’s anti-establishment revolt contain the seeds of a change?

Relations across the cultural chasm in the Coalition have been deteriorating for months, with Fine Gael and Fianna Fail ministers increasingly given to mutterings about their Green colleagues

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up: Ministers’ relief to go wheels-up for St Patrick’s Day

Government handed No campaigners a shovel to more deeply entrench woman inside the home

Files show officials battled over legal and financial risks as Coalition honed proposals to change the Constitution

Leading voices from the No campaign call for a new approach from advocacy groups that appear out of step with the people they represent

Is the view that the 'ordinary people of Ireland would always get their politics right in the long run' still valid?

Sinn Féin has succeeded in becoming an establishment party, but perhaps too convincingly for its own good

Department of Finance records prompted No campaigner Michael McDowell to accuse the Coalition of misleading voters

Radio: Today with Claire Byrne, Drivetime and Liveline all hear why so many people voted against the Government’s proposed changes to the Constitution

We asked readers who voted No in last week’s family and care referendums why they rejected the proposed changes to the Constitution

The true culture-war divide in the UK is public exasperation with the trivia that obsesses the political class

Mother of profoundly disabled boy challenges refusal of maximum care allowance in appeal of ‘systemic importance’ for carers

Lack of independent scrutiny raises questions about spending of public money in family and care referendums

Even if we live in an era where the duties of parenting are becoming more fairly shared, it is the case that parental and other caring duties fall more on women

The far right regards the vote as a big breakthrough, as they should

‘My gut told me that it wasn’t the right move,’ says Fianna Fáil Senator Lisa Chambers

Coalition politicians turn fire on proposed hate crime law, saying new legislation should be abandoned

Ireland’s Global Greening is over, but the Great Global Scattering of Ministers is only warming up

What has taken the place of Catholic doctrine as a governing ideology is a passionless managerialism

We want to hear from readers on why they rejected the proposed changes to the Constitution

Constituency by constituency breakdown of the vote

Reasons for No votes are nuanced, but several things are now crystal clear

Hate speech legislation, stalled in the Seanad, now considered another potential electoral hazard, in addition to review of speed limits

‘Volatility and unpredictability in Ireland even greater than in 2020,′ says Cabinet source after referendums defeated

Spoils of victory have been picked up by those individuals and groups who urged the public to mark X in their No columns

Senator Michael McDowell, seen as the principal driving force behind the No campaign, lost the power of speech once the scale of the Government’s loss became apparent. All he could do was purr

Michael McNamara says no votes in family and care referendums cast Irish parliament in ‘a very dim light’

It became clear shortly after boxes started being opened around the country on Saturday that the two proposed constitutional changes would be defeated

Political impact of referendums will be fleeting but it is a public rejection every Yes-voting politician could have done without

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admits Government ‘got it wrong’ and will ‘reflect’ on referendums result