Only four years ago, 63 percent of the Irish electorate voted in a referendum against allowing divorce.

The amendment was approved by the Irish electorate by 67.1% to 32.9%, on a turnout of 59%.

The total number of the Irish electorate eligible to vote in election was 3,259,253.

The Irish electorate increased from around 700,000 to about two million.

This temporarily gave them a voice far beyond their number in the Irish electorate.

You can only govern with the consent of the people and by 2010 domestic water charges could well be acceptable to the Irish electorate.

A measured response to the genuine concerns of the Irish electorate is called for, but we must not appease the extremists.

Those who voted 'no' represent only one third of the total Irish electorate.

That is going to be up to the Irish electorate, but I would be rather disappointed if they gave in to pressure.

There is not much confidence being engendered for the guarantees that were given to the Irish electorate or to us, the sceptics.