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The Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland was approved in a referendum held in May 2019, and removed the constitutional requirement for parties to be living apart before a divorce. It also altered the provisions in Article 41.3.3° on the recognition of foreign divorce.
When the Constitution of Ireland was adopted in 1937, divorce was prohibited by Article 41.3.2°.A referendum held in 1986 to remove this prohibition was defeated. The prohibition was removed after a second referendum held in 1995, which was narrowly approved by 50.28% to 49.72%.
The proposal was rejected in a referendum on 26 June 1986. [1] It was the first of two referendums held in Ireland on the question of divorce; the Fifteenth Amendment in 1995 allowed for divorce under specified conditions.
Divorce Action Group (Irish: Grúpa Gníomhaíochta Colscartha) was an Irish organisation campaigning for the legalisation of divorce in Ireland. [3] The group was one of the main advocators for divorce in the 1986 and 1995 divorce referendums.
An exit poll carried out by Ireland Thinks for the Sunday Independent gave a breakdown of voting patterns based on party support and identified some of the reasons for the No vote in each referendum. It found that only Fine Gael and Green Party supporters had a majority voting Yes in the Care Referendum, with Labour Party supporters evenly split.
Amendments to the Constitution of Ireland are only possible by way of referendum. A proposal to amend the Constitution of Ireland must be initiated as a bill in Dáil Éireann, be passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas (parliament), then submitted to a referendum, and finally signed into law by the president of Ireland. Since the constitution ...
Divorce: Relax ban. O'Leary was a government backbencher. His move prompted the government to introduce its own bill. [15] Tenth (No. 2) 1985: PMB [e] Labour: Second stage (defeated) Divorce: Relax ban. Labour's coalition partner Fine Gael opposed the bill; a government-sponsored divorce amendment was rejected at referendum later in 1986. [16 ...
Although the Catholic Church campaigned against divorce, [14] the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland passed in 1995, and divorce was legalised. [15] Same-sex marriage in the Republic of Ireland has been legal since 16 November 2015, following the 2015 Irish constitutional referendum. [16]