S2 Episode 5 After The Eighth Ireland Repeals Abortion Ban

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ireland has voted by a landslide to end its near-total abortion ban. We hear the voices of victorious campaigners in Dublin Castle in the moments when the result was announced. Naomi and Tim discuss the historic moment in a Dublin pub. We ask what this means for Ireland, what it means for the world, and whether Northern Ireland is next.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Welcome back to the Irish Passport podcast.
0:40.5	And today we are coming to you from the Departures Lounge of Dublin Airport, lovely Terminal 2.
0:45.6	I'm flying back home after a momentous week in Ireland for the weekend.
0:49.3	I mean, we've just witnessed history here in Ireland.
0:53.6	Ireland has voted by a large majority to overturn
0:56.2	its famous near-total constitutional abortion ban. Now we have made a few episodes on this in the past,
1:02.4	so if you want to go back and check out the history behind it, you can. Yeah. We recorded our first
1:07.3	conversation just like digesting the events and the results which was in
1:11.2	O'Donoghue's pub in Dublin and now guys we have to put our hands out the sound quality isn't
1:16.2	the best so apologies for that yeah but we thought there was value in recording our first conversation
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