A Co Leitrim man has lost his appeal aimed at allowing him seek permission to challenge the Yes result of the abortion referendum.

The president of the High Court will rule later on two separate applications for permission to bring petitions challenging the Yes result of the abortion referendum.

As many as 3.2m people will cast their vote in today’s eighth amendment referendum including 118,000 new voters, underlining the level of public importance being assigned to the historic vote.

People are urged to bring their polling card and photographic IDs with them to polling stations today if they want to be guaranteed the chance to vote in the historic Eighth Amendment referendum.

Doctors who are opposed to abortion will not be forced to dispense the abortion pill, according to Health Minister Simon Harris.

The Psychological Society of Ireland has firmly come out in favour of repealing the Eighth Amendment and has published two papers which it says counters “false facts that are not based on scientific research”.

Here's all you need to know this Tuesday morning.

The independent Referendum Commission has urged people to register to vote ahead of today’s deadline to have a say in the May 25 referendum.

The independent Referendum Commission has urged people to register to vote ahead of today’s deadline to have a say in the May 25 referendum.

A further 50 members of the legal profession in Ireland have added their names to a statement calling for a no vote in the upcoming referendum on the Eighth Amendment.

The referendum commission is set to launch a series of television, radio, and media advertisements urging people to inform themselves about the details of Ireland’s abortion laws before the national vote in just four and a half weeks.

Irish Facebook users will see notices this week on their personal pages alerting them on how to spot fake news.

The Referendum Commission has been urged to act as a de facto fake news debunker during the Eighth Amendment referendum campaign, despite saying it has no official role in policing incorrect online advertising and information on the issue.

Facebook plans to introduce fake news alerts on its pages for Irish users ahead of the abortion referendum vote.

Facebook plans to introduce fake news alerts on its pages for Irish users ahead of the abortion referendum vote.

This Dáil may never get to legislate for abortion even if the people vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment, ministers are privately warning.

The Government will today publish the wording of the abortion referendum after a Supreme Court ruling removed one of the final stumbling blocks to the planned May vote.

While the Supreme Court decision has removed a key stumbling block in the way of the abortion referendum, a series of hurdles still need to be overcome before a potential May 25 vote.

Dissatisfaction with the status quo is a convincing campaign short of assent to actual change, writes Gerard Howlin

Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has suggested the Eighth Amendment be repealed and replaced in the Constitution with a clause allowing the Oireachtas to regulate abortion.

Update 4pm: The Citizens' Assembly has backed calls for a permanent Electoral Commission to oversee how referendums are run here.

You’d want to have had a heart of stone not to feel sorry for Frances Fitzgerald as she walked out of Leinster House on Tuesday, writes Victoria White.

OVER the last week or so we have seen the High Court play a very hands-on role in our public affairs, so much so that national media organisations — RTÉ and The Irish Times — had to go to the court to have decisions clarified so they could publish reports of the Dáil proceedings without fear.

Two separate applications for leave to bring petitions challenging the result of the referendum clearing the way for same-sex marriage will come before the High Court today.

I have ceased to listen to any debates on the marriage referendum.

SOCIETIES evolve by leaving behind beliefs and practices once thought eternal; by embracing alternatives that better fit the world as it is, not as it was or as is imagined.

The Referendum Commission has denied giving contradictory advice about the impact of the Marriage Equality Referendum.

Campaigners for a No vote in the Marriage Equality Referendum say the head of the Referendum Commission has contradicted himself.

The Government is to “throw everything” at a yes vote in the marriage equality referendum, after tightening poll numbers set Coalition nerves on edge.

ONLY cowards hide behind children. The ‘no’ side are cowards who want to make this marriage-equality referendum about hate, when it should be about love.

Justice Kevin Cross, of the Referendum Commission, provided some welcome clarification, on the Morning Ireland programme, on the issue of surrogacy. 

Allowing same-sex couples to marry will not impact on adoption laws or redefine marriage, the independent chairperson of the Referendum Commission said.

The head of the Referendum Commission said there will be no right to surrogacy as a result of the same sex marriage referendum.

Extending civil marriage rights to same-sex couples has been backed by the National Youth Council of Ireland. The endorsement came as Taoiseach Enda Kenny urged a large turnout for the May 22 poll as Government sources expressed jitters over a drift to the no side in the marriage equality referendum.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has predicted that the debate over the marriage equality referendum will become “aggressive and divisive” in the closing days of the campaign.

Today is the final day for people to ensure they are registered to vote in the upcoming referendums.

A number of questions have not been not clarified on the Referendum Commission’s website: The Constitution does not say that marriage has to be between a man and a woman; that is how the law defines it.

A seven-judge Supreme Court has unanimously refused to order a rerunning of the 2012 Children’s Referendum after finding a Dublin woman had failed to prove an unconstititional government information campaign “materially affected” the yes outcome.

Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, April 21) opines that adoption of the referendum proposal on May 22 to lower the age limit of presidential candidates from 35 years to 21 years would be an expression of Ireland coming of age with ‘a young uncynical President’, as if the role of head of state is to become a random and unstructured social science experiment.

Former President Mary McAleese and Justice Kevin Cross have reassured middle Ireland that a ‘Yes’ vote on same-sex marriage will not undermine the the rights and status of families.

Leaflets have been circulated by the Referendum Commission to raise the publics awareness on what they will be voting for on May 22.

The status of marriage in the Constitution will remain unaltered if equal rights are extended to same-sex couples next month, the Referendum Commission has declared.

Only the people can alter the Constitution and Government should do its utmost not to be seen as interfering with the process, writes Seán Ó Conaill.