Campaigners for a No vote in the forthcoming referendum on the Eighth amendment have accused the other side of conducting the majority of “hostile” behaviour during the campaign. Niamh Ui Bhriain, chair of the Save the 8th group, accused Yes supporters of “sickening and appalling” behaviour in targeting people who backed retaining the Constitutional provision. “Yes campaigners have torn down half of the No campaign’s posters,” she said at a press conference on Tuesday. “I know from other mothers who have been in this situation that they have received similar abuse from Yes campaigners online and I think that is sickening and appalling. Supporting the No campaign, Ms Caulfield accused the Government and Yes campaigners of “exploiting” her experience, and similar experiences of other women, to promote repealing the amendment.

Source: The Irish Times May 22, 2018 14:48 UTC