Tag: Irish Times

  • Irish Abortion Referendum

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    Brendan Barry
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    On Saturday Ireland announced the results of a referendum on changing its constitution to remove Article 8, which had made abortion illegal except in the case of risk of death to the mother. And that was it, none of the usual rape or incest clauses. I want to look at a little coverage of the…

  • Irish Coalition Government

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    Brendan Barry
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    As I alluded to yesterday, in addition to visualising Irish election results the Irish Times built a coalition builder. The principle behind the visualisation is sound: how could a government be created? And so the user goes away and creates his or her fantasy government. From a design perspective, the piece is nice with bold, party-related…

  • The Shape of the 32nd Dáil

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    Brendan Barry
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    Ireland calls its lower-house of parliament the Dáil and its prime minister taoiseach. When I visited Dublin, election season was in full swing and upon the first Friday of my return to Chicago, Ireland went to the polls to elect the 32nd Dáil. The vote resulted in a hung parliament, i.e. with no single party in control—there…