Just get me to the polls on time

There were a few raised eyebrows, which quickly gave way to broad smiles as a blushing bride appeared in her wedding dress at a small national school in Co Cork yesterday.
If it wasn’t for the fact that Ciara O’Halloran was marrying her beau, she’d actually have been working as a presiding officer for yesterday’s referendum vote. The 31-year-old, who is an assistant staff officer with Cork County Council and comes from Ballinhassig, should have been acting as a presiding officer in Turner’s Cross, but had a more important date in her diary.