Sinnott speaks of ‘powerful grassroots effort’ to overturn Referendum vote
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FORMER INDEPENDENT MEP Kathy Sinnott has told supporters of a “powerful grassroots effort” to have the High Court overturn the result of last week’s referendum on the constitutional amendment on children.
In an email sent to supporters last night, Sinnott said she and other advocates for a No vote had been “racing to sort out petitioners, legal team, lines of argument, supporting evidence and funding” ahead of yesterday’s deadline to lodge a court order.
Two petitioners were yesterday granted leave by the High Court to challenge the outcome of the referendum, which was passed with a Yes vote of 58 per cent and a surplus of just under 170,000 votes.
The petitioners are Joanna Jordan, a campaigner for a No vote, and Nancy Kennelly – a resident of a Co Limerick nursing home who had voted Yes in a postal ballot before the Supreme Court ruled that the government’s information campaign, which she told the court she had relied upon, was not impartial.
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2012-11-20 19:40:49
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