Irish Examiner view: Lessons to be learned from referenda losses

The results have earned a humiliating rebuff for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and his cross-party supporters

The appetite for constant change is diminishing rapidly among voters. And all the more so when benefits are unquantifiable or vague.

We have regularly warned, and again as recently as last week, that the appetite for constant change is diminishing rapidly among voters. And all the more so when benefits are unquantifiable or vague.

Thus it is that the results of the double referendum — an overwhelming rejection of the propositions on care and on the family — have earned a humiliating rebuff for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and his cross-party supporters.