Firstly for those people who’ve waited for the moment the state actually recognises their relationship and offers a chance to get their affairs in order I’m sure yesterday was a very good day and by the end of the year or early next year there will be a lot of people queuing up to get […]
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Lack of functioning broadband (Chorus NTL are definitely not top of my christmas list) means that I was merely tweeting stuff during the day. You can read the bill here and the memorandum here. If you want to catch up on links etc and see who said what and when the women in Gaelick have […]
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Congratulations to Cllr Ruth Illingworth on her election as Mayor/ Cathaoirleach of Mullingar Town Council. Ruth is being described as Ireland’s first Out Mayor a tag I think she doesn’t really have much truck with. I do think she’s probably one of the first elected out lesbian councillors in the state. A member of Fine […]
Tags:Fine Gael·Ireland·Matt Cooper
So there we go – keep an eye to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reforms’s website tomorrow lunchtime maybe. A Friday dumper if ever I saw it. No press conference planned from Minister Ahern to explain it all. Meanwhile the Green Party Leader and others are going to visit GLEN tomorrow to have […]
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It’s a year since the Heads of Bill were published on Civil Partnership. I noted the Sunday Business Post’s story this week saying the publication of the bill is imminent. While the mothership is not parked outside Stephens’s Green awaiting smoke from the Ministers office I’ll be keeping an eye out. I was wondering if […]