I often read the New York Times wedding announcements, sometimes they have lesbian and gay weddings announced, increasingly so since same sex marriage became legal in Canada. This weekend there was an announcement from a couple who have been together 42 years and who got married last Tuesday in Canada. Whilst their marriage has little […]
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Lots of coverage for this new initiative launched yesterday outside Leinster House. I note that the site has a blog and a heavy concentration on civil union issues and ‘how your politician voted’ in the recent private members debate on the Labour Party’s Civil Union Bill. I’ll give lots of link love to any reader […]
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Or maybe they did not understand the question? Perhaps they were living apart the night the census took place… Nevertheless maybe there should be a tribunal into the missing same sex couples in Ireland. The number of same sex cohabiting couples recorded in the 2006 census was 2,090 compared with 1,300 in 2002. Two thirds […]
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That’d be the deposit that’ll be taken away because in Dublin South Central Frank McNamara does not have a hope of getting a seat for the PD’s. Flying in off his piano stool from Dunboyne, (that’s Dunboyne, Co. Meath!) Mr McNamara has spent this afternoon on Liveline defending himself. One of the last times I […]
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Ten years after the party passed a motion onthe matter (proposed by yours truly) at a party conference in Limerick, today the Labour Party have published a Civil Union Bill to be debated in the Dáil during private members time. I could say about time but really it’s a bit late into the ‘game’ really […]
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