Irish elections and referendums must be shielded from external influence State can build electoral commission from scratch to guard against voter interference about 19 hours ago Liz Carolan There appears to be no Irish law explicitly banning overseas groups and individuals from working to influence our ballot boxes.
In May 2018, anti-abortion activist Emily Faulkner landed in Dublin Airport. She and a group of fellow activists had held a fundraiser in her native United States to raise $10,000 to pay for travel and campaign materials. They had feared they would be turned away by immigration officials, but as she pointed out, it “turns out nothing we were originally planning on doing was illegal at all”. So they travelled throughout Ireland with 5,000 posters they had printed urging Irish citizens to vote No to the referendum on the Eighth Amendment.