VIDEO: Pro-choice side must be proactive ahead of campaign

The pro-choice side is in danger of repeating the early complacency of the marriageequality campaign in their apparent desire to assume an easy win in the referendum, by merely talking to people who think the same as they do, writes Shaun Connolly

Today marriage equality — tomorrow repeal the eighth! That was the rallying cry heard echoing around Dublin Castles’s quadrangle last May as the referendum results rolled through and it seemed Ireland had at last allowed in the future.

To misquote Mary Robinson when she announced the 1990s had finally arrived on her election to the presidency in November 1990, for those in the joyous crowds, it felt like the 21st century began in Ireland that day.