Host: Kathy Sinnott with guest Dr. Gabriel Doherty

Ireland is still reeling from the devastating result in the Irish abortion referendum. The vote was 2 to 1 in favour of abortion in the Republic of Ireland. So it begs the question: How did Ireland come to this? Where does Ireland go from here? Who are the Irish people in 2018? What does it really mean to be an Irish patriot? Dr. Gabriel Doherty a is college lecturer in history at the School of History in University College Cork. Doherty has researched and written extensively about the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. To help understand what it means to be Irish, Kathy talks to Dr Doherty to explore who the patriots and fathers of the modern Irish republic were - and what was it that they believed that drove them to pay the ultimate sacrifice for their country.