Irish novelist warns of Brexit-style revolt against elite on abortion vote

As referendum day nears, Patrick McCabe says Dublin media liberals could pay for snobbery towards rural Ireland

One of Ireland’s most critically acclaimed novelists has warned that the country’s referendum on abortion in May could be a “Brexit/Trump” moment for Ireland, exposing similar divisions between rural voters and city-dwellers.

Patrick McCabe, the author of bestsellers The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto, both made into feature films, said there was a danger that sections of the “metropolitan media in Dublin” could alienate voters in rural constituencies and help usher in a no vote against abortion reform.

It may be their big statement in the way that Trump was in America

Continue reading... April 08, 2018 at 04:34AM