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Updated 11.19pm
THE RESULTS OF two exit polls suggest that the Yes side in the Eighth Referendum is set to win by a huge margin.
A poll for the Irish Times suggests that the result of the referendum is 68% in favour of yes to 32% for no, while one for RTÉ estimates that 69.4% voted yes.
The Irish Times exit poll was conducted by Ipsos/MRBI on 4,000 respondents at 160 polling stations in every constituency. The margin for error is estimated at +/- 1%.
The highest yes vote was in Dublin, according to the exit poll, with 77% of people voting yes. Support among women was 70% in favour of repealing the Eighth, while it suggests that 87% of 18-24-year-olds voted for a repeal.
The RTÉ’s exit poll, announced on the Late Late Show by Behaviour & Attitudes, was conducted interviewing 3,000 people across Ireland immediately after they voted today. There was a broadly similar yes vote among men and women with, again, almost four-fifths in Dublin voting yes.
In Connacht and Ulster, 62% voted yes according to the RTÉ exit poll.
Although only an indication of how the Irish public voted, the strong margin in favour of Yes has led campaigners on that side to begin celebrating a victory, while No campaigners have conceded the vote.
Simon Harris TD / Twitter😀 will sleep tonight in the hope of waking up to a country that is more compassionate, more caring and more respectful. It has been an honour to be on this journey with you and to work #togetherforyes . See you all tomorrow!
— Simon Harris TD (@SimonHarrisTD) May 25, 2018
John McGuirk / TwitterThe 8th did not create an unborn child's right to life - it merely acknowledged it. The right exists, independent of what a majority says. That said, with a result of that magnitude, clearly there was very little to be done. Thank you to every NO voter and campaigner. #8thref
— John McGuirk (@john_mcguirk) May 25, 2018
Turnout was reported to be high across the country today, with estimates putting the number of voters ahead of the 60% that voted in the 2015 marriage equality referendum.
Polling boxes are set to open at 9am in the morning around the country, as the votes are tallied in the Eighth Amendment referendum.
Early tallies from count centres around the country are expected from midday onwards, and we’re likely to know definitively which side has won from 2pm onwards.
The official result will be announced from Dublin Castle, with rough estimates placing that at around 4-4.30pm.
Well we can all sleep peacefully now that that’s sorted.
Not the best comparison really considering he retorted with a figure for the domestic market rather than all operated markets combined.
The greed of the music companies is line one endless stream. The artists complaints are a joke. Plays on Spotify are like having your ads paid for
Streams on Spotify are a pittance and a poor source of income for musicians. More power to her if she wants to remove her music from Spotify. She clearly doesn’t need it as she’s by far the best selling artist this year.
Taylor Swift and her record company are just in it for the prestige of record breaking sales and the history books, not people who listen to the music. Nowhere is questioned what is better for the consumer (or fans as they used to be known)?
Spotify has obviously not cannibalised the album buying public, as her album has one of the highest number of record sales, which is in addition to any income from streaming and video services.. Spotify replaces the radio, not albums sales, and it gives people to opportunity to spend a small amount to listen (not own) music for a low cost. But not low enough that If all you wanted to listen to was taylor swift, then you could buy her back catalogue for less than a few months of spotify.
What the record company don’t get is that the spotify income, small as it is compared to if everyone who listened to a track bought the album instead, is a top up from people who would just download it from a torrent, or listen to it on the radio. It is never about being paid for their work, as she has the highest income per effort in the world, but instead just making sure parents pay what a record company exec told her each fan was worth.
She is probably the most popular pop artist out there at the moment and she would only make €400k/year on Spotify? Most artists must only be making pennies on it
I like her songs.
don’t know why. but her and her songs really annoy me, even more than Cheryl cole
Oooooh no, she only earned €398,000 in the last 12 months. Boo focking Hoo.
Taylor Swift and music in the same sentence . . . ? Jaysus.
Nope.
Maybe?
Depends!
On?
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