Alison O'Connor: Restrictions? Let's begin by lifting one that has solely targeted women

Article 42.1 does not confine women to their homes, but it has certainly contributed to denying our agency and autonomy

Laura Cahillane of the School of Law at UL has said Article 41.2 did not set out to confine women to their homes — but rather to allow them to stay home to raise families. The problem is, no policy to provide for this financially was put in place, so women never developed that economic right. Picture: Oisin McHugh

Good news alert. Tomorrow, Irish women look set to be released from the home.

No, this is not some gender-positive lifting of Covid restrictions, favouring ‘the fairer sex’. Rather, it will be the decision by the Citizens’ Assembly on what to do with that appallingly sexist ‘in the home’ Article 41.2 of our Constitution.