How Powerful is the UK? http://testu.be/1APF5FN Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Ireland recently legalized same-sex marriage by popular vote. Making it the first country to do so. We wanted...
========== In May of 2015, Ireland became the latest
country to legalize same-sex marriage, and the first to do so by popular vote. But are
they influential enough in the rest of the world to affect global change? Just how powerful
is Ireland? Well, the island of Ireland is the third largest
in Europe, after Great Britain and Iceland. However, there are actually two separate ”Irelands”
located on the 32 and a half thousand square mile land mass: Northern Ireland and the Republic
of Ireland. Now, technically, Northern Ireland is not an independent state, and actually
belongs to the United Kingdom. So we’re going to focus on the Republic of Ireland,
which makes up nearly 85% of the island and hosts some 4.8 million residents. That’s
roughly the same size as We...