Ireland says 'Yes' to abortion reform – in pictures
Pro-choice campaigners celebrate after Ireland votes to liberalise abortion law
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Women celebrate the result in Dublin.Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
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Yes campaigners react as they wait at Dublin Castle for the official result of the Irish abortion referendum.Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images
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Sinn Féin’s president Mary Lou McDonald, right, and Michelle O’Neill, leader of the party in the Northern Ireland assembly, celebrate at Dublin castle.Photograph: Barry Cronin/AFP/Getty Images
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, centre, the health minister Simon Harris, second left, and the culture minister Josepha Madigan arrive at Dublin Castle for the results of the referendum on the eighth amendment of the Irish constitution.Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
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A ‘Yes’ car in Dublin.Photograph: Max Rossi/Reuters
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Crowds at Dublin Castle.Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images
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A voter shows her support for repealing the eighth amendment of the Irish constitution.Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
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A tally keeper at work as votes are counted in Dublin.Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
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A woman kneels in front of a mural of Savita Halappanavar in Dublin. Halappanavar – who became the symbol of the Yes campaign to repeal the eighth amendment – died, aged 32, due to complications following a septic miscarriage in Galway in 2012.Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
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Women celebrate the result in Dublin.Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
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The health minister Simon Harris celebrates on arrival at the count centre in Dublin as votes are counted.Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
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Polling clerks handle the ballot papers.Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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People listen to results of an exit poll as counting of the votes begins.Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
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Polling card marked ‘Yes’ is seen as vote counting begins.Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
