Ireland marriage equality vote results TODAY. Pro-side joyously expecting VICTORY.

[MADem]

3. I was out in the west, in a very rural part of Co. Galway, a few years back,

and I got into a discussion with a guy at a bar about church malfeasance, spurred on by a scandalous headline in the paper. I knew a lot more about the matter than I was letting on, but I played the clueless dolt and started asking people their opinions about this thing and that. Next thing you know, a few guys in the pub got on the horn and called their pals to get on down there, and we ended up having one of the liveliest conversations I'd had in many years. I guess I was the night's entertainment! I learned a lot about attitudes in that end of the country, and I was rather surprised at the lack of rigidity in some regards. People do have the capacity to surprise ya--and in good ways, too.