Roddy Doyle revisits marriage referendum in new Facebook short story

This time, its Game of Thrones-themed.

Roddy Doyle's Facebook page often features a series of short stories imagining chats between two men over pints of stout.

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While the previous story referenced Ronaldo and soccer, this one name-checks Game of Thrones and the, eh, Scissor Sisters. And not the band.

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The story in full:

-There was a ring on the bell there earlier.

-At home?

-Yeah – earlier. I was watchin’ Game o’ Throne, so me head was full o’

swords an’ tits - .

-We live in a golden age o’ television drama.

-We fuckin’ do. Annyway. There’s a woman there – at the door, like –

an’ she’s talkin’. But I’m still thinkin’, like, I wouldn’t mind bein’ a

dwarf. So it’s a while before I notice the ‘No’ sticker on her jacket - and

her leaflets.

-Oh fuck - leaflets?

-She hands one to me an’ she says, ‘All children deserve their mother.’

So I say, ‘She’s only gone to the shops – for smokes. She’ll be back in a

bit.’ I’m wide awake now, so I say as well, ‘While you’re waitin’, you

could go across to number 78 an’ tell the kids there tha’ they deserve

their mother. Cos she’s in the Joy, playin’ Monopoly with the Scissors

Sisters.

-Is she?

-No – she was cuttin’ the fuckin’ grass. But I’m on a roll now, so I

say, ‘An’ what’s marriage got to do with children? I’ve seven

brilliant grandkids an’ none o’ their parents are married.’

-An’ is tha’ true?

-I’m not sure, to be honest with yeh – I can’t remember. But I say,

‘D’yeh have the Sky Boxsets at home?’ She says she thinks so. So I tell

her, ‘Go on home an’ watch a few episodes o’ Game o’ Thrones. An’

when yeh see wha’ the mothers get up to in tha’ thing yeh won’t be so

quick with your leaflets. An’ don’t,’ I tell her, ‘don’t write it off cos it’s

foreign. Cos it isn’t. It was made in Ireland.’ An’ she says, ‘I know it

was. In Belfast. By Protestants.’

The story has been liked by more than 8,000 people on Facebook and has been shared over 2,000 times.