Early Days Of a Better Nation
I went on holiday and one of my citizenships utterly disgraced me.
I came back from holiday and the other surpassed all possible expectations.
Friday, my friends got married, a cross-border wedding, where the groom's party stopped off to vote in the Marriage Referendum on the way to the ceremony. We laughed, we cried, I was named as a guilty party in the speeches*, someone got Sean up throwing shapes, the bridesmaids shed tiny silver flowers all over the dance floor, and yesterday morning I stabbed blearily at my phone to find that the first tallies looked like Yes and all morning it kept going up, so that by the time we bade the newlyweds goodbye and headed home it was past the point of losing.
By the time I went to bed, Dublin was having the party of a lifetime, and the HSE press office were telling inquirers the transition arrangements with gleefully mendacious encouragement to have two parties.
Early days. Early days.
*"They were both very quiet about this whole romance. Sure, we only found out when her Mammy said 'Isn't Mary's boyfriend a nice young man?' and she had to be put straight!"
I came back from holiday and the other surpassed all possible expectations.
Friday, my friends got married, a cross-border wedding, where the groom's party stopped off to vote in the Marriage Referendum on the way to the ceremony. We laughed, we cried, I was named as a guilty party in the speeches*, someone got Sean up throwing shapes, the bridesmaids shed tiny silver flowers all over the dance floor, and yesterday morning I stabbed blearily at my phone to find that the first tallies looked like Yes and all morning it kept going up, so that by the time we bade the newlyweds goodbye and headed home it was past the point of losing.
By the time I went to bed, Dublin was having the party of a lifetime, and the HSE press office were telling inquirers the transition arrangements with gleefully mendacious encouragement to have two parties.
Early days. Early days.
*"They were both very quiet about this whole romance. Sure, we only found out when her Mammy said 'Isn't Mary's boyfriend a nice young man?' and she had to be put straight!"