In the midst of the snow and economic chaos the Traveller Pride Awards yesterday may have gone unnoticed, however the Irish Times gives excellent coverage to the ceremony and the prize winners. The prizes were presented by President Mary McAleese. The community prize was shared by Rosaleen McDonagh and the Gay Traveller Support Group. When [...]
Tags:Gay Traveller Support Group·Rosaleen McDonagh·Traveller Focus Week
I had a restful weekend but it seems the Burkes in Mayo – you remember them – the Campaign for Concience family of 10 with biblical names – were very busy indeed. On Saturday they registered http://www.davidnorris4president.com. It is presented as a positive site but a quick glance and a few clicks later it’s full [...]
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The Catholic Bishops have been having their spring meeting for the past three days and the press conference today saw them complain about unfair treatment by the media and also express their concerns about the civil partnership bill. The Press release sent out at the end of the meeting says that the bishops are going [...]
Tags:Bishops' Conference·Catholic Church·Civil Partnership·Civil Partnership Bill·Patsy McGarry
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
Pat Kenny much like his colleague Ryan Tubridy is really uncomfortable talking about lesbian and gay issues, never mind those of gender identity. However this unease does not stop his brain working overtime. This morning while discussing Peter Robinson’s statement on his wife’s affair, Pat speculated that some aggrieved gay person was out to get [...]
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Continuing the series of ‘watching them watching us’ coming up to the debate on the Civil Partnership Bill. Tomorrow morning on Ocean FM in the North-West there will be a debate on Civil Partnership legislation between Izzy Kamikaze a ‘fearless’ local lesbian and Mary Doherty from Renew, a fairly new organisation which was linked to [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Gay community·Ocean FM·Society and Culture
The Burning Issues research launched today by the National Lesbian and Gay Federation comes shortly before the debating of the Civil Partnership Bill. Yesterday evening a number of LGBT organisations were invited to the Equality Authority for a briefing on the Bill. As Tipster says it’s a bit odd that GLEN could not/did not want [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·European Commission·Gay Lesbian and Bisexual·Gay community·Same-sex marriage·Society and Culture
Do the Iona Institute think the Irish public and their elected representatives are a few sultanas short of the full wedding cake? Well they must obviously with the latest line of lobbying that is underway with regard to the Civil Partnership Bill. Yesterday we heard that Iona Institute and their Director, my favourite passive aggressive, [...]
Tags:Catholic Church·Civil Partnership Bill·Fianna Fáil·Iona Institute·Society and Culture
She writes to antagonise. Many of you are going to be extremely angry at reading her latest bit of rubbish. I could suggest that you not to bother with her. Or you could make her some Irish Stew. Or tell her something about children’s rights because she claims to be something of an expert. She’ [...]
It’s been a funny old week so far with that stuff from the Pope which some say we should ignore or laugh off but I think there are a lot of queers going home for xmas with it ringing in their ears. Today Channel 4 announce their shock jock ‘scoop’ factor for the alternative Christmas [...]
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