I was intrigued but not surprised on Saturday night to read Cllr Dermot Looney’s blog about wanting to bring Dublin Pride to Tallaght. I have long had difficulties with the Dublin Pride March and it’s lack of message and meaningless ending in a scuttle down the back of of Wood Quay hidden from everyone. South […]
Tags:Dublin·Dublin City Council·Gay Lesbian and Bisexual·Gay Pride·Ireland
I was asked 3 times yesterday about gay people in the Irish Army and if they were allowed to serve. The hearings to examine the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) have commenced in the USA and Obama has promised to remove the bar on lesbians and gay men serving openly in the US […]
Tags:Defence Forces·Gay Lesbian and Bisexual·Ireland·Sexual orientation
You may remember when the second stage debate on the Civil Partnership Bill began back in December, Lucinda Creighton, FG TD for Dublin South East, was not present when called on to speak. There has been extensive time given to the debate fortunately and yesterday Lucinda spoke and thanks to the wonders that is the […]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Dublin South East·Fine Gael·Iona Institute·Ireland·Irish Catholic·Lucinda Creighton
Next week is European Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. There are a number of developments recently in screening for cervical cancer – some I’ve previously written about which have concerned me but it’s vitally important that women continue to be screened for the disease. (And for the many lovely lesbians who read this blog – I […]
Tags:Cervical cancer·CervicalCheck·Human papillomavirus·Ireland
Update: The Debate may not take place tomorrow due to an emergency round of statements from party spokespersons on Haiti. The Adoption Bill debate may have a large number of speakers and so time for the Civil Partnership Bill Debate may be restricted. The Second Stage of the Civil Partnership Bill will resume on Thursday […]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Ireland·Law·Legislation·Politics