Ireland has voted Yes to same-sex marriage, becoming the first country to enshrine marriage equality in its constitution by popular mandate.
The Yes vote won with 62 percent while 38 percent voted against on a 60.5 percent turnout.
“I’m calling it,” equality minister Aodhan O’Riordain tweeted on Saturday (23 May) in Dublin. “Key boxes opened. It’s a Yes. And a landslide across Dublin.”
Prime minister Enda Kenny said the outcome of Friday's referendum sends a “message of pion...
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