{"id":170210,"date":"2025-12-02T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170210\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:41:10","slug":"raise-a-glass-to-30-years-of-divorce-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170210\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise a glass to 30 years of divorce in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">\ufeff It\u2019s annoying me that I didn\u2019t organise a party or at least raise a glass. Last week was the 30th anniversary of a momentous day, a day that achieved several crucial things. We, the people, started a movement towards greater openness and generosity in Ireland. We ended suffering and stigma for an awful lot of people. We confounded a certain type of critic and may have eroded their influence for a long time into the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thirty years ago this past week, Ireland passed the divorce referendum. I didn\u2019t celebrate at the time, even though I was one of the leaders in the campaign. There were two reasons. First of all, I had no idea that campaign would be the first of many progressive and welcome changes. Secondly, I was in a complete funk on the day. I was convinced we were going to lose, and I would be a fairly significant part of the reason we failed.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/cms_media\/module_ob\/2\/1470_1_IE_logo_title_white.svg\" height=\"35\" width=\"280\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t    BLACK FRIDAY<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Benefits image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4846842_1_org_BF_offer.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ufeff It\u2019s annoying me that I didn\u2019t organise a party or at least raise a glass. Last week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11246,2121,61,60,4829,351,43,94089],"class_list":["post-170210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-childrens-health","tag-womens-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lgbtq","tag-mens-health","tag-news","tag-person-fergus-finlay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}