Every four years world media has to run explainers about what the US Electoral College is and why they would choose such a terrible system.

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Mea Culpa - sincere apologies if that upset you. D’Arcy is the spelling commonly used in Ireland.

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These are the same people who claim ‘pro life’ but when you list what’s proven to reduce the number of abortions, starting with good sex education in schools, they don’t want to hear it: very happy to condemn some to death on the backstreets, force others to term, no real concern re abortion at all.

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I’d have had one more if money/breathing space permitted. I agree you wouldn’t see a rebounding birth rate and families of 11 as norm again, but I also think there are people who wait a couple of years longer to start, therefore might have had one more. The pal of mine with least € worries has 4.

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the vast majority of people who emigrate from Ireland these days do not describe economic pressures as their reason for doing so. our high rate of emigration today is far more to do with having a highly-educated footloose workforce that speaks a global lingua franca and can work virtually anywhere

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