Dominic Hannigan who topped the poll in his consituency of Meath East, is the first openly gay person to be elected to the Dáil Éireann. Hannigan made headlines in 2006…
The polls closed at 10pm last night and the state broadcaster RTE released the exit poll early this morning. From the looks of the exit poll and reports from the…
Today, the Irish Independent released the results of a poll showing that more than 6 in 10 Irish people want marriage to be opened up to same-sex couples. Only 27…
With the general election less than two weeks away, the leader of Ireland’s Labour party, Eamon Gilmore, has said that he believes, “Ireland is ready for equality between gay and…
01/28/2011 by JR Russell One year ago, I reported that an Irish company, Tullow Oil, were readying an investment of 1 billion euro in Ugandan oil interests. We tried to…
Image via Wikipedia From today, Ireland will formally recognise the same-sex civil partnerships and marriages from 27 jurisdictions under the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act. Ireland’s…
Image via Wikipedia 12/15/10-by JR Russell Hot on the heels of October’s European court ruling that the ban on gay rights parades in Moscow violated the freedom of assembly, right…
Fear, Anger and Outing
by JR Russell We talk a lot about the politics of outing people as gay, lesbian or bisexual. Some of us believe it’s always wrong. Others, that it’s only ok…
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