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Scenes of jubilation outside Dublin Castle as Ireland votes by a landslide to ditch its strict abortion laws in a landmark referendum hailed by Prime Minister Leo Varadkar as a "quiet revolution". IMAGES
Signs supporting the pro-choice ‘Yes’ campaign and the pro-life ‘No’ campaign have gone up all over Dublin, days ahead of Ireland’s abortion referendum. Voters decide on May 25 whether to remove the 1983 constitutional restriction on abortion -- a highly sensitive issue in a traditionally devoutly Catholic country. FIRST IMAGES.
Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar arrives at a Dublin polling station and casts his votes in a double referendum on proposals to modernise constitutional references to the make-up of a family and women's "duties in the home". All the major political parties support a "Yes-Yes" vote, which falls on International Women's Day. IMAGES
'Yes' campaign leader Isobel Ellul celebrates after Gibraltar voted to ease its draconian abortion laws in a referendum delayed for over a year by the coronavirus pandemic. SOUNDBITE
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar hails a "quiet revolution" as this traditionally Catholic country votes to liberalise some of Europe's strictest abortion laws in a historic landslide referendum. SOUNDBITE
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