I am surprised and disappointed that Ireland's Civil Partnership was so half arsed.
Why did you put up with it?
The whole point of Civil Partnership was to provide the same rights as marriage.

So you now have what you should had eight years ago, and you can now call it "marriage," except in any church.

That is all that is achieved by all the expense, disruption and hoopla of the great referendum.
" All changed, changed utterly."
Hardly.

I am wholly in favour of equality in everything including marriage, but let's keep a sense of proportion about this.