BBC’s Newsnight last night covered Ireland’s same-sex marriage referendum. In the interests of covering it for an outside audience the report was focused on not only the competing arguments of the last few weeks, but also on what it represents for Ireland in a broader, historical sense – as a battle of the present versus Ireland’s Catholic past.

They turned to a range of talking heads, including Bishop of Limerick Brendan Leavy, rural parishioners and Senator David Norris.

And to understand the views of the younger generation they spoke to Blindboy of The Rubberbandits, adn he explained how the vote was in some ways on more than a specific change to the Constitution.

(H/T PJ Browne)