Irish Priest James Rafferty has hit the headlines this week as it was revealed that it was his intervention with a Catholic school in Boston which resulted in an offer of a place to an 8 year old being rescinded due to the child’s lesbian parents. The school like most religious schools in the US […]
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The Dáil is on holiers and I am not. Excuse the lightness on the blogging as the day job keeps me occupied and tired. However you could peruse the programme for Stranger than Fiction – this is a documentary film festival taking place in the Irish Film Institute this weekend. Of note besides Pyjama Girls, […]
Tags:Documentary film·Fawcett Society·Film festival·Ireland·LGBT·Oliver Stone·Tom Shakespeare·Youth
or not… I refer of course to Fair City. Yvonne Doyle who when I last watched Fair City years ago was one of my most despised characters, is going out with Connie – whom the RTE website describes as ‘Self-taught, independent and strong-willed’ (secret telly code for lesbian). Yvonne met Connie in Australia it seems […]
Tags:Fair City·Ireland·Lesbian·Raidió Teilifís Éireann·Same-sex marriage
Today’s Sunday Business Post reports that there will be changes to the Civil Partnership in the coming weeks and the legislation continues it’s progress through committee stage in the Dáil. Niamh O’Connor reports that the name of the Bill is to be changed to the Civil Partnership and Cohabitation Bill 2009 to reflect the fact […]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Dermot Ahern·Irish Farmers Association·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform·Oireachtas
Last week at the same time as the Civil Partnership Bill began it’s committee stage, GLEN were holding a launch of their Guide on LGB Diversity in the Workplace. The project was developed in conjunction with IBM, the Irish Business Employers Confederation, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Business in the Community Ireland and the […]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Discrimination·Ireland·Irish Congress of Trade Unions·Lesbian·LGBT·Minority group