Ireland's Green party scored high in EU elections on Friday (24 May), in the second pro-European exit poll in the 2019 vote.
Irish people also voted to relax divorce laws in a referendum the same day in a closer embrace of liberal values.
The Green party was on course to win three out of Ireland's 13 MEP seats after coming from nowhere, according to an exit poll by Red C for Irish broadcaster RTE out on Friday evening.
The Green candidate, Ciaran Cuffe, won Dublin by a lan...
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