Ireland will be hosting the International Lesbian and Gay Association European Region conference in 2012 due to a successful bid made by GLEN at the ILGA conference in the Hague which took place last weekend. They made a bid video and I’m sure you’ll find something to entertain you in it!
I mentioned recently the paucity of Irish MEP’s who had joined the LGBT Intergroup of the European Parliament. I’m happy to report that this week Joe Higgins (Socialist Party – Dublin) and Marian Harkins (Independent – West) have both accepted invitations to join. They join Prionsias de Rossa and Nessa Childrers. Other MEP’s have also […]
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During the recent session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg a debate was held on the issues facing same sex couples in registered partnerships or marriages and the lack of transferability of these agreements when couples travel between member states. The debate can be viewed here with speeches from members both for and against European […]
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Today’s Wicklow Times is reporting that Senator Deirdre de Burca is packing her bags and heading for Brussels to work in the cabinet of Ireland’s new European Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn . Now you may remember the last time Senator de Burca hitched the parachute to her back and flew. This time she is going further […]
While I was on holidays a work colleague texted me to say she had been canvassed by Cóir. The canvasser told her that if Lisbon was passed that she would be put down like a dog. My colleague has cerebral palsy. She didn’t argue back and managed to move away. I was shocked but not […]
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