I want you to give us a date for a referendum on repealing the eighth amendment Enda

“We are walking in the rain,” my friend Dave tweets, “to support thousands of women who have to face an ocean.”

IT IS Saturday, September 24, 2016. My alarm goes off at 5.45am.

It is dark outside but I can hear the rain beating against my window and all I want to do is pull the duvet over my head and go back to sleep.