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Voters leave St Annes school,in south Dublin, Ireland on May 25, 2018, during the Irish referendum on liberalising the abortion law.<br />People in Ireland on Friday voted in a landmark referendum on whether the traditionally Catholic country should liberalise some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. / AFP PHOTO / Paul FAITH

Ireland looks set to “make history” by liberalising some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said as votes in the hard-fought referendum were counted Saturday.

The proposal to repeal the constitutional ban on terminations was predicted to win by a more than two-thirds majority, according to both exit polls.

A survey of 4,000 voters for The Irish Times newspaper put the pro-choice camp ahead by 68 percent to 32…



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