We should look the other way when companies tell us how to vote

THE Irish people have beaten off an army of bishops carrying croziers by saying ‘Yes’ in the same-sex marriage referendum. For the first time, they have made up their own minds.

So says the international media, anyway, including the Financial Times and the New York Times, so it must be true. Not that I noticed a whack of a crozier in my polling station, but that was probably because I voted in a Muslim school.

I guess the priest at our local church (who is in his 70s, but can’t retire because there is no one to replace him) is feeling rattled. And as for the last Jesuit teacher in Ireland, who is in my local school? I bet he is gobsmacked that his all-powerful Church did not deliver a ‘No’ result.