History of the Republic of Ireland and secular-minded people, urban and rural, middle and working classes. Issues such as divorce, contraception and homosexuality have since become accepted by many and have ceased to be matters of serious political debate. However, legalising abortion remained controversial. Opinion poll evidence on the subject of abortion is mixed. On May 25, 2018 Ireland voted to repeal the ban on abortion. Legislation is expected by the end of the year to allow abortion on demand up to 12 weeks and under restrictions after that. In 2015, Ireland became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by means of
Christopher Beaumont, 23rd Seigneur of Sark Christopher Beaumont, 23rd Seigneur of Sark Christopher Beaumont is the present Seigneur of Sark in the Channel Islands and a major. He succeeded as Seigneur on 3 July 2016, when his father Michael Beaumont died. On 5 July 2016 the "Sark Newspaper" published an article that listed reasons Sark residents should have doubts about what the Seigneury of the 23rd Seigneur held in store for them. The "Sark Newspaper" reported Sark residents could not know whether Beaumont would re-occupy the Seigneurie, the traditional residence of the Seigneur, even though it is a matter of public record that the elderly former