Children’s poll details ‘favoured yes vote’

The Government’s campaign in the children’s referendum was in “clear disregard” of the limits on what the State may do and was neither fair, equal, impartial nor neutral, the Supreme Court has ruled.

The Government’s campaign favoured passing the referendum, it found.

In judgments yesterday, all five judges agreed with Dublin engineer Mark McCrystal that the Government campaign breached principles requiring publicly funded information in a referendum to be presented in a balanced way.