Repeal the 8th - have we talked about Ireland's 'abortion war?'

Thanks @AngieMumsnet
I haven't seen it since.

I wish it was 24 hours in the future and we knew what the outcome was. So tense.
Was shaking going into the polling station this morning.

Good luck women of Ireland!

#hometovote on Twitter with all the stories and pictures and cheering welcome crowds in the airports is so good to see.

Not Irish, but standing with my sisters on this one. Hope it’s a Yes today.

Diff16 I have only recently heard Ann Lovett's story. A terrible & dreadful one in the proper meaning of those words, in these days of words meaning whatever any speaker wishes them to mean. Her baby died too, I believe. So two lives lost because of the uncaring laws of the state. But sadly not shocking to those who see how little women are valued.

To-day's the day girls, just voted yes. Met a neighbour and her daughter off to vote for the first time ever - 2 more yeses.

But I've been campaigning on this and there is a lot of bitterness and anger amongst No voters - so I am still not getting excited until every vote is counted.
I really hope we are celebrating tomorrow night - even though we have been warned not to seem too happy, I don't care, I have lived under this the whole of my reproductive life, so I will be happy and celebrate if I want to!!!!

I voted yes this morning.

Tá for the Mná na hÉireann

Truly moved reading the #hometovote tweets and stories of people travelling to Ireland in the hope that women in crisis in the future won't have to.

to all the Mná na hÉireann today

Finally today is the day. I'm disenfranchised as I live abroad. I'm so so nervous that it won't pass.

Heartening pictures on Twitter of Irish voters heading home to vote yes. C’mon Ireland. You can do it.

@TheVeryThing well done and Thankyou for all your efforts on the front line. You will have made a difference, you will have changed minds and galvanised people to vote.

Fingers crossed!

@AngieMumsnet @RivkaMumsnet we appreciate that MN didn’t solicit that ad and Thankyou for your attempts to zap it ASAP..... is there a way to quantify how much MN profited from the ad being hosted on the site so you are able to donate your income from it to a more suitable cause?

Happy referendum day! I am full of nervous energy, it’s going to be a very tense 36 hours.

I know at least a dozen youngsters who are flying home specifically to vote as well as many more who are going home from all over the country.

I'm still not convinced it will be enough.

I was 21 in 1983, exactly the age dd is now and I was just as vehemently pro-choice as she is today. I find it hard to believe that I'm 55 now and we have not moved on. I dread to think that if this doesn't succeed dd might be 55 and I might be 80 before we get another chance.

I always grew up thinking that Ireland had equal rights for men and women. I didn't really understand what feminists were still fighting for. I slowly started realising that things around me weren't quite right, infact they weren't equal at all. I now realise that I'd been completely misguided by a misogynistic society.
When the vote was first announced, I thought thank goodness the people can finally get what they want. Then I realised a rake of people don't want women to have control over their own bodies, equal rights as men, basic human rights.
I hope it's a yes tomorrow. But I have learned something from this, that I am passionate about feminism and want to get involved in a movement to help future generations of women and girls.

Diff. I was on my knees reading about Ann Lovett. Cried my eyes out.

Grew up in Ireland, been away a long time now, I just pray the YES vote wins tomorrow.

That ad though.
Repeal the 8th.
But if you are responsible for a living baby who wears hats, definitely allow her to grow to adulthood. And maybe don't legislate to remove her bodily autonomy, so she can live the life of a happy woman with rights.

Thanks @RivkaMumsnet

Me too Eight. Emotional times. Hoping against hope for a yes outcome, it's by no means certain. My sister lives in a more rural part of the country and was on a Yes stall earlier on, she was called a "fucking murderer" (by a man) today.
But I've also seen my friend post something on fb saying why she will be voting Yes which was unthinkable a few months ago.
So. Hope

It's heartwarming the number of people journeying back to Ireland just to vote. Another here hoping for a big 'yes

I've just been watching #HometoVote on Instagram and it is so heartwarming to see all the people returning to Dublin airport to vote and the people waiting to welcome them home.

I'm an emotional wreck

Just shows the extent of the funding they have
Don't know if this has already been posted:
Six ways Ireland’s abortion referendum could be hacked this week
www.opendemocracy.net/5050/six-ways-Ireland-abortion-vote-hacked-foreign-influence
It's heartwarming the number of people journeying back to Ireland just to vote. Another here hoping for a big 'yes'.

That's good to hear TheGirlFromNoWhere. I was avoiding logging on to the Irish Indo today just to avoid the ads. Yes it does show the no sides funding.

I am an Irish expat living abroad. I have heard so many sad cases of mothers with cancer who are pregnant but are denied treatment , fetal abnormalities, rape, etc, etc. I love my country, but it needs to come out of the dark ages. I am someone who went to a convent school in the 80s, with a girl in my class who died when pregnant- don't tell me that the Catholic Church cares... they don't! Her name was ANN LOVETT, google it.