That law was only put into place after the Savita Halappanavar case and it's still too limited. There was a "Y case" after that whereby a woman was raped. She said that she was suicidal which would have made her eligible for an abortion under the current legislation but oh no, she was still made carry the child and give birth to it. She didn't have the money to go to the UK to get an abortion. The experience must have been incredibly traumatic.
The maternity units in Irish hospitals are useless. There are stories of women's babies dying at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise in the news recently. These incidents dated back for years but nothing was done.
Also, there was a Dr. Neary who worked as an obstetrician and actually tied women's tubes so they couldn't have anymore children. He did this for years and no-one told on him except this English nurse but then she lost her job and had to go back to England.
Ireland also made women give up children for adoption and sold the children to rich Americans for thousands of dollars. The Irish government also gave money to the Irish Catholic church to house the pregnant women and their babies. There was no social workers or any kind of social services back then..the Catholic Church assumed that role. Ireland has a very poor track record on women's reproductive rights dating back many centuries. Until a few years ago, you had to get the morning after pill from a doctor on prescription. It's now available from a pharmacist but that was only a recent change. Sex education was also just introduced into schools a few years ago and it's still not extensive enough.
And the reason that Ireland had to have a referendum on gay marriage in the first place is because the constitution was founded in 1937 by Eamon de Valera who was very pro-Catholic church so there's a section in it Article 40 which stated that marriage was only between a man and a woman. But gay people are still being discriminated against because article 37.1 of the Irish constitution allows religious schools to discriminate against gay teachers and actually fire them.
There was also a rural/urban divide in the gay marriage referendum. In Dublin, the "yes" vote was very high (around 60-70%) whereas in rural areas it was more like 45-55% so it's disingenuous to say that Ireland is a progressive country. It's anything but.
I think that Irish politicians want to continue to attract foreign direct investment from America so they'll whitewash just how socially conservative the country still is. Telling the international community that Ireland is so modern will get positive PR but it's just not true in reality.