Victims of a growing economic divide

The landslide ballot to repeal the Eighth Amendment was delivered by a mobilised youth, in particular women aged 18-35. They are impatient to reshape the country in their own image. In a sense they are righting a wrong. Almost no rich country has a greater mismatch between its law and its predicted degree of liberalism, based on demography alone, than Ireland.

However, the generation that impacted such radical social change are the victims ...