I’ve taken a little blogging break here for the last ten days or so, but it’s not been completely quiet. You may have noted the post exploring the campaign for marriage and the change in how marriage is interpreted which I wrote earlier this week on The (Fabulous) AntiRoom. I think some of the point […]
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It’s been difficult not to notice that Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht affairs Pat Carey has hit the ground running in terms of visiting community projects around the country and trying to offer soothing words to the decimated sector. Minister Carey has a lot of making up to do given the bad relations which […]
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Just in from the Department of Justice and Law Reform Ahern Welcomes Coming Into Law of Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 The Minister for Justice & Law Reform, Mr. Dermot Ahern T.D., welcomed the coming into law of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act […]
Tags:Civil and political rights·Civil Partnership and Certain Rights·Civil Partnership Bill·Mary McAleese·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform·Oireachtas
I don’t usually do blog posts on rumours but there’s an awful lot of whispering going on regarding the President calling a meeting of Council of State and sending the Civil Partnership Bill to the Supreme Court to test it’s constitutionality. Early this afternoon the phone and the gchat started going from people in all […]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Constitutionality·Council of State·Politics·Supreme Court
For years this week will be remembered not only by lesbians and gay men and their allies but also by Senators past, present and future. It is popular to knock the upper house, it’s even popular to call for it to be scrapped. However for those of us who watch it on a regular basis […]
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