Ireland votes overwhelmingly to end abortion ban | Photos

By Padraic Halpin and Conor Humphries
Updated May 27 2018 - 8:09am, first published 5:22am

Ireland's prime minister has hailed the culmination of "a quiet revolution" in what was once one of Europe's most socially conservative countries after a landslide referendum vote to liberalise highly restrictive laws on abortion.

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