Takeaway #1 from #8thref - Box-fresh new voters have learned their vote can change the fabric of the State. Please draw a line to how your vote has power on the laws that affect you. Keep exercising your franchise. Get yourself in gear for a general election. VOTE.
Takeaway #2 #8thRef - During the factchecking and Q&A drive focus of @thejournal_ie I had to repeatedly face down challenges from the No campaign because facts do not respect any agenda. If facts are not on your side, then check your arguments.
Takeaway #3 #8thRef - my team were abused on social media, had their professional email requests tweeted out by No campaign leads, were shamed when they turned up to No press conferences and they did their job in spite of it and covered those events. This is good journalism.
Takeaway #4 #8thRef - there is some hope for politics on this island when you see how a unified agenda driven by listening to the public, which started with the Citizen’s Convention, can chime with citizen’s views at the ballot box. Business as usual, it is not.
Takeaway #5 #8thRef - we are a progressive country. Leave aside thoughts of an rural-urban divide. Politicians and organisations who will seek your mandate on the basis of furthering that myth will gradually lose power.
Takeaway #6 #8thref - social media and giant online platforms can be a conduit for both good and evil. Ireland has some say in this regard. It will be useful if our legislators take more time and make more effort to address this.
Takeaway #7 #8th ref - Mna na hEireann, you are not a minority, in spirit nor in voice. Not any more.
Thank you to the bravest women we have spoken to in the past four years.
Keep tell us your stories and we will listen and we will publish.
Thank you to the bravest women we have spoken to in the past four years.
Keep tell us your stories and we will listen and we will publish.
