Government is feeling the love following success of referendum

WHO WOULD ever have thought, even six months ago, that the Government would end up cresting on a wave of gay love, asks Alison O’Connor.

I imagine if you had predicted this to Enda Kenny before he became Taoiseach he might have laughed at you

But it is the truth. There is no one in Government circles deluding themselves that the same sex marriage referendum was won by them. They always had the power to lose it, but not, on their own, to win it.