Joyce Fegan: What happened to the revolution of Repeal?

Amelia Goonerage from Dublin joins campaigners celebrating in Dublin Castle after the yes vote won the 2018 referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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SUBSCRIBEAmelia Goonerage from Dublin joins campaigners celebrating in Dublin Castle after the yes vote won the 2018 referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
People took leave from work to campaign. There was an endless variety of badges and buttons. There were the T-shirts, tote bags, and jumpers. There was the mural. There was the covering up of the mural. There was a top-rating podcast created specifically to cover Repeal.
There was the half a million euro raised in a handful of days through €2 donations for the posters. There were the groups — doctors, lawyers, psychologists, midwives, grandparents, parents, artists — all for choice.
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