evidence: Democracy Today in Ireland - According to the most recent IDEA global democracy report ( January, 2021) a total of 125 states and territories allow people living abroad to participate in legislative elections, 88 allow participation in presidential elections and 73 countries and territories allow citizens overseas to participate in referendums. https://www.idea.int/our-work/what-we-do/global-state-democracy. Ireland is not one of them - There are currently over 830,000 Irish citizens and passport holders living in Northern Ireland who are denied the right to vote simply because they are on the wrong side of the Border. When Mary McAleese ran for the Presidency of Ireland for the first time in 1997 she and her husband Martin were not allowed to vote because they lived in Belfast - Of the 14 EU Member States that hold direct Presidential elections, only Ireland, Slovakia and Cyprus deprive their overseas citizens of the vote. [...] - Irish citizens living outside the State include 830,000 passports holders in Northern Ireland and another 750,000 living in over 70 nations around the world with a very large concentration of Irish born citizens in Great Britain. They, however, represent a tiny fraction of the much larger global Irish Diaspora of 70 million. [...] - In 2015 the Manning Report on Seanad reform recommended that a majority (30) of the Panel be elected by popular vote on the principle of one person one vote and that the vote be "extended to include Irish citizens in Northern Ireland to holders of Irish passports overseas."