Wedding day for Enniscorthy T.D.

December 1985

Enniscorthy T.D. Ivan Yates ended his bachelor days last Saturday when he wed his schoolteacher sweetheart, Deirdre Boyd, from Ballinglen, Tinahely.

It was a private family wedding with the little country church of St. John’s at Proban, outside Aughrim, filled with close relatives and friends for the 25-minute ceremony.

Canon J.C. Challender from Tinahely presided at the ceremony at which Canon K.S. Wilkinson of Enniscorthy assisted.

True to tradition, 22-year-old Deirdre was the customary ten minutes late for the ceremony, but when she arrived everyone could see why she won the heart of the Fine Gael deputy as she looked absolutely resplendent in her ankle-length wedding dress of Austrian lace.

Equally beautiful for the occasion in a dress of royal blue was her 18-year-old sister Alisson, a secretary with a Dublin firm of consulting engineers, who was bridesmaid.

Deirdre, who is teaching in Gorey since October, is the third member of the Boyd family to get married this year. Wedding bells also rang out in 1985 for her brother Roger, and another sister, Gillian, married Aidrean Rothwell, Glynn, Co. Wexford, who was best man for Ivan.

Incidentally, Roger and Aidrean have been close friends of the 26-year-old Enniscorthy politician since their schooldays together at Waterford and at Agricultural College in Roscrea.

The bride was given away by her father, Campbell Boyd, who is a farmer at Ballinglen.

The reception was held in the Seven Oaks in Carlow and over 90 guests attended. On Sunday, the newly-weds flew out to Cyprus for their honeymoon.