Bruce is simply wrong on same-sex marriage

Recently, I received a note from Bruce Arnold attaching the latest version of his ‘private study paper on same-sex marriage in the Irish Constitution’. “Michael, you should write about this,” he wrote. “Please do.”

I might have declined his invitation if it had not been for a ‘press statement’ he sent me, roundly attacking the Referendum Commission’s leaflet about the issue. He accused the commission of “dumbing down” the complex question and he ...