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THE MAJORITY OF people in Ireland think Irish citizens living abroad should be allowed to vote in presidential elections.
That’s according to an Amárach/Claire Byrne Live poll carried out for TheJournal.ie.
It found that 56% of people believe that Irish citizens who live outside Ireland should be allowed to vote in presidential elections.
36% of people believe they shouldn’t be allowed, while a total of 8% of people were unsure.
In September, a referendum commission was set up to advise on the upcoming ballot on allowing Irish emigrants and people in the North to vote in presidential elections.
Also that month, the government published a bill allowing people abroad to vote in presidential elections. The bill must first be passed by the Dáil and Seanad before a referendum can be held.
The referendum was initially due to take place in May of this year, but in February, Cabinet approved to move it to the autumn.
In October, it was reported by the Irish Times that the referendum was unlikely to take place until 2020, as government sources said the referendum campaign would not go ahead while Brexit negotiations were ongoing.
Returning to look at the poll results, the age group most in favour of allowing Irish citizens living abroad to vote in presidential elections was 25-34, at 68%.
Those least in favour were the 45-54 age group, with just 50% in favour.
Looking at a regional breakdown of the poll, Munster was the area with the most amount of people in favour of allowing Irish citizens abroad to vote in presidential elections, at 61%.
In Connaught/Ulster, 56% of people were in favour of allowing it, while 55% in Leinster (excluding Dublin) and 53% in Dublin were in favour.
The Claire Byrne Live / Amarách Research Panel consists of over 1,000 Irish adults, all aged 18+. The poll was conducted in early December.
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Tulsa had no problem acting when it came to poor Sgt Maurice McCabe.
All these government agencies,Tulsa,GDA etc that are found not doing their jobs properly are never held to account, inquiry is set up and comes up with strict guidelines and announced,but again they are not implemented and with Tulsa this is very worrying as children are involved. It’s all repeat repeat and cover up.
@@mdmak33: good ol mizz Zappone… she’s fantastic at having her photo taken with babies we goota give her that
Tusla Rotten to the Core.Well able to Set up frame Maurice McCabe I believe there is 1000s of other Maurice McCabe in Ireland who have fake/falsified Data/information on their good names on the Garda pulse records & Tusla records a lot of this is going on in family law courts /industries for custody of Children Big Money to made of the backs of innocent families this all needs to be looked into further by Human Rights Organisations our reporter s from the Journal.ie
Tusla covering up child abuse now there’s a suprise
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