AIBU to be shocked by the Irish referendum?

[Yetmorebeanstocount]

I'm not from the Irish Republic. I just read what the ballot was about. I am shocked at what their constitution contained:

Article 41.2.1° “In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.”
Article 41.2.2° “The State shall, therefore, 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.”

I'm even more shocked that early results suggest the Irish have voted to KEEP this dire crap in their constitution.

Am I missing something?

I think alot of things on here have not much to do with the original discussion!

We've gone on a lot of tangents

Yet, true.

BBC is received freely in Éire (Wikipedia), and those close to the border register with the NHS to access a doctor to avoid the doctors fee.

It matters when oddballs come on here and lecture us fgs! This thread really is so strange!

Right

Putting it somewhat mildly there 😂

It's tribal as I see it, a good thing, not a bad thing, and people born where I am, the town, also tribal from being where we are.

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You didn't know this?

If you are, you are remarkably badly programmed

Erin's land, of course. And I call it Éire as I was taught

I am somewhat amused as my username is a west Wing character who was a Russian double agent ☺️

It's what happens when people haven't experienced it and so can't understand it, so therefore it isn't true

You admit it then

You should consider changing to Ireland.

So, anywayyyy...

I can’t imagine the thrill of flying in an airyplane and leaving my hovel in the bog and being in another country in the same week! You’re right, I’m just an ignorant culchie.
Is this because I dared to question the veracity of a poster who states that she is in Ireland as if to imply that the outcome of the referendum had some bearing on her life? Then later states she left Ireland a week ago and hates the country?

Well, no. I'll consider nothing. The country is Éire to me.

More like troll methinks. Don't feed it!

Most of us thing Brexit was stupid so please feel free to say so

Yeah. The thread has become v strange altogether. I'm amused and bemused in equal measure! Roll on the news 😁

Do you also refer to Italy as Italia when speaking English? Or call Germany Deutschland? Same difference

Enjoying my apple, thanks. By all means, carry on...

Sometimes...?

😂😂

We could always open the kettle of fish and say, but of course, the British Isles...