Last Friday, a paddlesteamer named Oliver Cromwell started to sink on its journey from north Wales to Northern Ireland, delighting both fans of pregnant political metaphors and enemies of the Butcher of Drogheda alike. On the same day, two-thirds of the votes placed in Irish ballot boxes committed the Irish government to changing the law on access to abortion. The surprise announcement that the repeal side had won left the six counties in the north in a peculiar position: now out of step with both the Republic and the rest of the United Kingdom, on both abortion and gay rights.
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