Yesterday was genuinely surreal. I wandered around town in a daze. Strangers saluted one another, with ear to ear smiles in the fluttery freedom which was slowly emerging. Taxi drivers blew their horns passing Dublin Castle, people blared their car stereos, and even tourists cheered from open-top buses. Faces were watercolour, technicolour, and all utterly beaming. Tears flowed over laughter, the city was alive with joy, and I had never in my entire life been more proud to be Irish.