1995 Divorce referendum 50.3 % voted Yes

We've really progressed alright, back when you could make a phone call and you have accomoation for college, a great night life, now it's considered violence if you don't call some people by their preferred pronouns and they can change it as often as the like.

Back when being gay or bi had an edge to it and nobody really cared what way you were orientated. Back when the local paper seller who loved his flamboyant liberty and was accepted, nobody batted an eyelid he was selling newspaper's in Ennis and we all respected and loved good ol'e Michael Tierney.

Back when there was no Blue haired social justice warriors and their mood swings. Back when myself and my friends were cool and probably we're considered progressive now the people who call themselves left of center all half baked fruit cakes .

Back when we had the ecco warrior's who camped out in tree's in the glen of the downs and had something to protest about.

Rave's out in the open, disco bar's, nightclubs, when we had refugees and nobody batted an eyelid. When there wasn't any racism.

We've progressed all right lol

Never miss an opportunity for an aul bash at the gubbrmint there why don't ya?

Some people manage to correlate the FFFG with everything( it sounds like an acronym for 90's communist autocracy 😂 ).

You will be blaming them for the fact that your shight stinks next?

Lol some of us were actually rebellious and did the opposite, apart from the odd now recovering atheist banging on about the church and religion some of us were heathens from a young age. Gave the finger to the church back in 1987 , at Halloween we'd egg the parochial house. We nicknamed the local cannon the rocket launcher. Aul cnut, miserable bastard.

People will tell you that the church had a grip on us, did they fck. Nothing funnier than having a laugh in church and walking out in knot's laughing. Or the priest asking the youths at the back could they please leave because they're disturbing the congregation.

Back when there was no contraception lol you're joking right you'd regularly see a rubber johnny on the road even during the 80's . The Pink elephant in Limerick was an open gay bar along with Loafer's in Cork. You had incognito the gay sauna in Dublin and a few other bar's catering for the gay community. Sometimes we'd drop in for a pint, especially in Loafer's in Cork as it was near a friend's house off Douglas Street.

I am not sure if rape has ever been legalised in Ireland. But I have no doubt if it ever was, it was long before either party was ever conceived.

I think dragging Dick Spring n Co in here, to your petty malign, is scrape the bucket stuff. I would imagine a gormless leftie like yourself may have found a sneak of Irish Pride in voting for the Labour party when it actually mattered?

But hanging onto to a suggestion that any previous Irish government were somehow impiously complicit in the promotion of poor legislation in relation to the tackling of domestic rape, is really embellishing your ignorance on the topic? I would ask you to take a genuine interest in this country, its' laws, their implementation and the process surrounding that.... before you decide to retrospectively throw your fingers at erroneous suggestions of guilt on former governments' approach to the Irish justice system?

For starters, most gov TD's of any significance in the early 90's were balls deep in trying to develop a democratic process, which might enable 800,000 irish people in the six counties have a wince of a future... something that your average modern leftie fails to ever rationalise? Don't forget that the majority of the leaders you seem to have pedestalled as being the " future" of this country, were either locked up, on the run or incapable of having their malignant diatribe from being broadcast on any legal medium apart from an inauspicious black and white rag sold in pubs during holy hour.

So whilst you reckon they might just have the potential to make your shight smell like roses, I would implore you to investigate the smell of the stuff pouring out of your mind, it stinks for sure....

I'd agree with most of your post but I don't think that Shannon has zero racism. There's racism everywhere in the world not just white on black etc. But yeah, Shannon was and is very multicultural and generally people just get on with each other and live and let live. Growing up here with people from all corners of the world I just took it for granted and never gave it a second thought. Tbh, the kids coming in from 'the country' to school on the buses every day had a much tougher time having the piss ripped out of them. It was the same with homosexuality, it didn't really get much of a mention pre 90's. Sure, there were the usual nasty jokes but none of the LGBT issues got discussed at all really. Nobody that I went to school with was out.

It was only when I'd left school and was working with some gay folks that it even occurred to me to wonder if I'd been at school with anyone who was gay. Looking back there are a few people that probably are and they left town soon after finishing school. It makes me feel sad that they couldn't be themselves and went through all of those years hiding who they are. People under the age of 40 really don't have a clue what it was like to live in Ireland back in those days. I think a lot of people who voted NO did so out of fear. There would have been a lot of women in unhappy marriages who were financially dependent on their husbands to raise their kids and were probably only holding on until the kids left home. That sounds bad but people do what they do to survive. There was also a hell of a lot of shame around divorce and not really any supports for women.