The marriage equality referendum outcome represented a statement calling for an end to the practice of blacklisting people because of their sexual orientation.

Water charges became necessary because we, the people, failed to vote for the abolition of the Seanad, an institution that costs as much, if not more, to run than does the provision of water nationwide.

Incredibly for an island divided along religious lines for almost a century, nothing has been proposed by the constitutional convention around the separation of Church and State.