One year on - celebrating the Marriage Referendum
One year. One year since the world changed. One year since Ireland changed. Over the course of one weekend in May 2015, Ireland had shaken off the aura of parochial misanthropy that had blanketed the country like a grave shroud ever since the foundation of the state. It was on this weekend that the Irish voted overwhelmingly to recognise the right of homosexual couples to marry, and even enshrine that in the constitution of Ireland. I still remember that weekend like it was yesterday. Even though I couldn’t follow the count as closely as I had wanted to, friends from Germany had come over to visit, it was hard to escape the electric atmosphere in Ireland that weekend. It was truly “electric Ireland”! Celebrating the one year anniversary of the Marriage Equality Referendum in Bishop Lucey Park in Cork. To be frank, I wasn't so sure about the success of the referendum when I stumbled upon the kickoff rally of one of the Yes campaign groups in Dublin earlier in 2015. Alt...