The unexpectedly strong percentage of approval surprised both sides.
'Now that it has happened, at a personal level, it's just going to take a long time to let that acceptance sink in.' Zappone, a Seattle native who resettled with her Irish spouse in Dublin after they met and fell in love while studying theology in Boston College, said: 'For so long, I've been having to dig in my heels and say: 'Well, we are married.
Since 2003 they have fought Ireland legally to have their marriage in Canada recognized as valid here, have taken their case all the way to the Supreme Court. Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan, it's an emotionally overwhelming moment. The Irish gay community's biggest party in history came late on Saturday, after the announcement that the nation's voters had passed a gay marriage referendum by a landslideįor Ireland's most prominent gay couple, Sen.
