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John Downing: How the Dáil battle over condom sales ushered in an era of profound social change
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It was 1985 – not the Victorian era. But in that year you needed a marriage certificate and a doctor’s prescription to legally buy a packet of condoms in Ireland.
The change to Charlie Haughey’s “Irish solution to an Irish problem”, 40 years ago this week, was only carried by the narrowest of Dáil margins and after huge controversy that impacted many other subsequent Irish political developments.
