Ahead of Cork Pride, Colm O’Gorman reflects on family and a changed Ireland

As he takes his place as Grand Marshall at Cork Pride, Colm O’Gorman, the calm, considered voice in the months leading up to this year’s vote on marriage equality, talks to John Meagher.

COLM O’Gorman bounds into the cafe just up the road from Leinster House, where he had spent the previous few hours, and, on spotting him, a gentleman at a table near the door seeks a handshake and a snatched conversation.

A lot of people feel a debt of gratitude to this softly-spoken Wexford native.