Irish government 'walloped' by referendum defeats


FILE PHOTO: Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar walks to cast his vote in a referendum on changes to the Irish constitution called the Family Amendment and the Care Amendment, at Scoil Treasa Naofa in Dublin, Ireland March 8, 2024. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Irish voters have rejected proposals to replace constitutional references to the makeup of a family and a mother's "duties in the home" in a significant defeat for the government.

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar had pitched the vote, held on Friday to coincide with International Women's Day and counted on Saturday, as a chance to delete some "very old-fashioned, very sexist language about women".

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