It hardly needs saying, but anyone who can should vote "No" to both referendum proposals on Thursday.
A country's Constitution is serious business. Our government (and we have had essentially the same government for decades now) seems to think it should be changed as often as a hand-towel.
Here's the statement from the Catholic bishops (good on them) and here's a video from Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne making the arguments against the proposals.
It seems most likely they will pass, given the voting record of the Irish public. But there's some hope; as recently as 2013, a proposal to abolish the Seanad (the Irish upper house of parliament) was narrowly rejected.
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