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Entries Tagged as 'Same Sex Partnerships'

Dear Nervous Nellies

January 21st, 2015 · 7 Comments · Homophobia, Irish Politics, Marriage Equality, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships, Uncategorized

Yes you … stop looking over your shoulder… you who watched Claire Byrne Live and began to panic about the Marriage Referendum and started worrying about what was going on, who was doing what and the sky was going to fall in and and and… 1) Chill the feck out. 2) There are 4 months […]

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Civil Partnerships – the numbers 10 months on

February 14th, 2012 · Comments Off on Civil Partnerships – the numbers 10 months on · Irish Politics, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships, Social Policy

For day that is in it (Bah Humbug) GLEN have released some statistics on Civil Partnership in Ireland. The figures, provided by the General Registrars Office show that: · 536 couples entered civil partnership in Ireland in the nine months from April 5th 2011, when civil partnership first became available · the 1072 people entering […]

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Domestic abuse in relationships between women

January 12th, 2012 · 8 Comments · LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships, Social Policy

If you watch one thing this week? More on this fabulous European campaign and the organisations behind it. My experience in Ireland has been that many lesbians are involved in work in the area of domestic violence but refuse to work on or acknowledge domestic violence in same sex relationships. But no all lesbians want […]

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Two women raise a baby

December 2nd, 2011 · 9 Comments · LGBT, Marriage Equality, Same Sex Partnerships

Two women raise a young man who can speak well in public in Iowa last February, it goes viral again for some reason this week and lesbians and gay men and their friends go nuts about it.  It’s been all over my facebook and twitter with pre requisite gushing.  It’s not the video itself that […]

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Iarnrod Eireann apologise to gay couple over travel pass rejection

August 16th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Irish Rail, Same Sex Partnerships

Iarnrod Eireann have ‘sincerely’ apologised to a gay man and his husband for an incident in Heuston Station on Sunday where they were prevented from travelling on a train to Cork because the ticket checker and station master would not allow them to travel on a Department of Social Protection travel pass.  The pass was […]

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