How might this journey be for an Irish woman, travelling alone with her thoughts? An Irish woman in her late 40s, pulling along a pink wheelie case, is coming home to vote, she concedes. Queuing up at the ferry terminal, another young Irish woman turns to her in delight. "You're home to vote too," she says, explaining she had been upset at the thought of doing the journey alone. She was up very early to get the 5.30am train, she says, determined to cast her vote, which is in Dublin.

Source: Irish Independent May 25, 2018 01:30 UTC