Polls are open for the vote in today's referenda across Meath

Polling stations open across the county have just opened as people are being asked to vote in two referenda to change the Irish Constitution.

The first referendum concerns the concept of family; while the second proposes to delete an existing part of the Constitution and insert new text providing recognition for care provided by family members to each other.

In the family amendment there is one vote for two proposed changes including that the State recognises the family, whether founded on marriage or on other durable relationships, as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.

The State pledges itself to guard with special care the institution of Marriage and to protect it against attack.

In the care amendment you are being asked to vote so the State recognises that the provision of care, by members of a family to one another by reason of the bonds that exist among them, gives to Society a support without which the common good cannot be achieved, and shall strive to support such provision.

It’s your voice and it’s your vote…make it count today, Friday, March 8!

You can cast your vote between 7am and 10pm when polls closed. The votes will be counted tomorrow (Saturday) in the Donaghmore Ashbourne GAA Club with a result expected in the afternoon.