A sweeping mandate: Focus moves to enacting legislation

Friday’s vote was the most seismic break with the past since we voted, in May 1972, to join the European Economic Community.

The first vote moved Ireland out of the all-covering shadow of Britain; Friday’s scream-it-from-the-rooftops call for change moved Ireland out of the shadow of another imperialism, one that has enjoyed, and too often misused, hegemony since the foundation of this State.