>>14379822The age of consent in Ireland was 12 for females until the year 2006. Before 2006, age of consent laws were based on medieval-era Catholic laws for marriage. Becky and Fergal's acts of fornication were illegal as they took place before 2006, but fornication laws were almost never enforced in all of Irish history.
>By the common law the age at which minors were capable of marrying, known as the age of consent, was fixed at fourteen years for males and twelve years for females. 