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It demanded that, on the one side, the system did not really, seriously, believe that it was going to push too far into people’s lives, that, for example, young people would be frisked for condoms at discos and prosecuted if they could not produce a marriage certificate. But it also depended on most people not flaunting their defiance of the law or pushing too hard against the boundaries of what was acceptable.
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
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