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Couple happy to play part in Ireland's 'big step'
By PAMELA DUNCAN WHEN BARRY Dignam and Hugh Walsh first met almost 20 years ago, homosexuality was still illegal; neither man envisaged then a time where their relationship would be legally recognised by the Irish State. Yet today, 17 years after they started going out,…
Author: The Irish Times
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Ireland's Future Prosperity Linked to a Thriving Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Population
Summary: Ireland’s future economic prosperity depends on how the Government and Irish society plans for diversity and attracts and retains some of the world’s leading talent, it was stated at the launch by An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern TD of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network…
Author: Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
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Keeping Memory Alive
It wasn’t easy ten years ago when 19 people from diverse backgrounds in Northern Ireland came together to talk about setting up the Healing Through Remembering (HTR) Project. Intense feelings and bitter memories of the conflict made it sometimes hard to be in the same…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Republic of Ireland's Chief Justice launches guides on civil partnerships and cohabiting
This article was originally published on 21 December 2012. By Fiona Gartland Two guides to civil partnership and cohabitation will provide valuable information for gay, lesbian and bisexual people as well as for legal practitioners, Chief Justice Mrs Justice Susan Denham said last night. She…
Author: The Irish Times
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Changing the Story: Using the Arts to Advance Social Justice
In the 2008 film Sin Nombre, the audience follows a young Honduran woman named Sayra as she winds her way through Mexico and into the United States in search of a better life. Her trip is lonely and dangerous, and through her eyes Sin Nombre…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Irish Short Film on Equal Marriage Rights for Same-Sex Couples Storms YouTube
Over 140,000 View Movie with Numbers Continuing to Soar MarriagEquality, a project of the National Lesbian & Gay Federation (NLGF), is an Atlantic grantee. Coco Television’s short film, Sinead’s Hand staring Hugh O’Conor has clocked up over 140,000 views to-date since its launch on August 19th with…
Author: MarriagEquality website
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Victory for equality
Analysis by Kieran Rose, chair of Glen (Gay + Lesbian Equality Network). In just a few words in yesterday’s Irish Examiner, Jerry Buttimer contributed significantly to the opening out of Irish politics and society. Mr Buttimer became Fine Gael’s first TD to come out, saying: “I…
Author: The Irish Examiner
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2011 to be a good year for Same-Sex Couples
“This will be a good year for very many same-sex couples who will now be able to have formal recognition, protection and support for their relationships” said Kieran Rose, Chair of GLEN. Under the Civil Partnership Bill and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act 2010, which…
Author: Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
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As We Enter 2008, a Look Back Shows Policy Gains for Atlantic Grantees
The end of one year and the start of the next is a traditional time for looking both back and forward, and a good time to check in with readers of this column – an unusual experiment in philanthropy that we started in July, a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Constitutional Convention is 'critical opportunity' to examine human rights
More than 20 leading rights organisations believe Ireland’s constitution is out-dated in terms of protecting the fundamental human rights of Irish people. The groups have joined forces ahead of the forthcoming Constitutional Convention, highlighting in a letter to the Taoiseach the need to examine equal access to…
Author: The Irish Examiner