Politicians choose bridge over troubled waters

Bridges unite, but unseen currents and troubled waters are often never too far away.

And so, despite weekend polls suggesting the tide is with the yes side ahead of Friday’s referendum on the repeal of the Eighth Amendment, Tánaiste Simon Coveney and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin stood shoulder to shoulder on a landmark Cork bridge yesterday and said they are taking nothing for granted, four days out from polling day.

At an early-morning, cross-party canvass on Trinity Bridge in the city centre, the Tánaiste said: “You never quite know until the end. This is a very divisive referendum for many people. Lots of families, I think, are having really in-depth conversations about how they should vote.