Tying the knot - Respect for the meaning of marriage

CIVIL marriages can be conducted at a whole range of new venues because of the enactment of the Civil Registration Act 2007.

This has the potential to inspire a new level of absurdity in what has already become an outlandishly expensive and sometimes fraught and vulgar occasion.

Some couples might wish to mark the happy occasion on a golf course, a beach at sunrise, the snug in the bar where they first met or even the halfway line at the local GAA pitch.