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Dogs campaigning for choice need bandanas
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24 May, 2020
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Jim Healy, Dogs for Choice So how does one harness the power of dogs to help fight for people’s reproductive rights? Social media really helps. Over a year before Ireland’s…
Fingal Said Yes
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24 May, 2020
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Orla Drohan Everybody who took part in the campaign to repeal the 8th amendment has their own story to tell. Here are some of my personal reflections and memories. The…
A couch
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23 May, 2020
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Luke Field, Rebels4Choice Thinking back to the referendum in 2018, the first memory that jumps out at me is not a conversation I had, or a leaflet I handed out,…
Change by Candlelight
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23 May, 2020
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Bernie Linnane – Leitrim ARC On a chilly November afternoon, in 2012, I stood among a small crowd in Sligo. We had gathered to protest, to express our anger, our…
I’ll never forget it.
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22 May, 2020
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Therese Lynn Thinking about May 25th 2018 I am flooded with memories. I realised my repeal story was so many things. It was exhilarating to join arms with like-minded people,…
To my fellow canvassers…
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22 May, 2020
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Helen Stonehouse, ARC P&A member and T4Y volunteer My repeal memories feel like they take up so much time and no time at all. I’m going to tell you a…
‘The exit polls say it’s over. We did it.’
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22 May, 2020
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Caroline Barry My choice in 2001 was simple and off to England I went. I was too young, too naive and too immature to take on the responsibility of what…
Kerry says Yes!
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21 May, 2020
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Paula Dennan is a founding member and former convener of Kerry for Choice. I am standing in the count centre in Killarney. All of the boxes have been tallied, so…
Marching with you was an honour
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21 May, 2020
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Edana Flynn It was the ARC March for Choice in 2018, we arrived early in Dublin and headed to where breakfast was generously being provided to those marching to the…
A pocketful of badges
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20 May, 2020
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Danielle Roberts – Alliance 4 Choice, Belfast When thinking about Repeal of course the referendum and the campaign leading up to it is one of the first things that comes…
