Irish PM 'quietly confident' amid brisk voting on abortion
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he was quietly confident that a strong early turnout in Ireland’s abortion referendum on Friday would favor those seeking change in what only two decades ago was one of Europe’s most socially conservative countries.