Posts Tagged ‘ civil partnership ’



Civil Partnership Bill 2009 – Dáil Debate Resumes (again)

Jan 26th, 2010 | By click here | Category: Current Affairs

The Dáil is to resume its debate on the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 this Wednesday, 27th January 2010. (It is scheduled to take place at some point between 11:29am and 1:30pm, although first to be debated in that time-slot will be two other bills.) A Live Blog has again been set up, and we hope to embed the stream to the live Oireachtas video to allow readers to follow the debate.




Civil Partnership Bill 2009 – Dáil Debate Resumes

Jan 20th, 2010 | By click here | Category: Current Affairs

The Dáil is to resume its debate on the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 this Thursday, 21st January 2010. (It is scheduled to take place at some point between 10:30am and 3:30pm, although first to be debated in that time-slot will be the Adoption Bill.) A Live Blog has again been set up, and we hope to embed the stream to the live Oireachtas video to allow readers to follow the debate.




Portugal set to approve same-sex marriage; adoption ruled out

Dec 18th, 2009 | By click here | Category: Current Affairs

The Portuguese government yesterday approved proposed legislation to remove references to gender in respect of marriage. Yes, Portugal looks set to soon remove any prohibitions on same-sex marriage. The proposals, however, exclude such couples from being considered for adoption, with some saying that this enshrines further discrimination.




Civil Partnership Bill 2009 – Dáil Debate

Dec 3rd, 2009 | By click here | Category: Current Affairs

The Dáil is to debate the second stage of the Civil Partnership Bill today 6:45pm. As you may recall, the Bill was published the day before the Dublin Pride march in June of this year. A couple of weeks ago we wrote that An Taoiseach said the Bill would be debated, “Hopefully, in the first week of December.” And so it has come to pass.




Civil Partnership Bill and religious cop-outs

Dec 1st, 2009 | By click here | Category: Current Affairs

I came across crazy Christians, Renew, thanks to recent posts on MamanPoulet. MP has also been writing about the religious fundies lobbying for a religious “opt-out” to the Civil Partnership Bill. The misses tried to extract some reasoned discussion from the un-speak and scare-mongering by dropping them an email..




USI LGBT Pink Training 2009

Nov 26th, 2009 | By tabula rasa | Category: This and That

Pink Training is a weekend event for LGBT students from all over Ireland consisting of talks, workshops and a night out or two. The aim is to educate LGBT students on the issues they will face, how to deal with them, to learn about sexual health and to learn about LGBT history




Analysis of the Civil Partnership Bill

Oct 6th, 2009 | By Gooner | Category: Current Affairs

Our friends at MarriagEquality have been working away at trying to make some sense out of the Civil Partnership Bill and so decided to ask a barristor to have a look. They asked important questions like what the Bill will mean for same-sex couples and those with children if it becomes law in its current state?




Hell no: Cardinal Seán Brady and civil partnership

Aug 25th, 2009 | By click here | Category: Current Affairs

I’m sorry.. Last time that I checked, I was sure that Seán Brady was not an elected representative of this country, nor is he a member of government. And yet, he seems to think that he can stick his oar in concerning how the law of the land is shaped.




Elections 09: Lisa Connell for Dublin SW

May 29th, 2009 | By orange | Category: Current Affairs

Recent years have seen gay rights activism in Ireland gathering momentum and a new wave of advocates has pushed the rights of LGBT people to the fore of the equality agenda. One such advocate, Lisa Connell, has now thrown her hat into the ring for a seat on Dublin City Council. Lisa took time out from her busy campaigning schedule to answer a few questions for us…




Who cares about gay marriage? I do.

May 28th, 2009 | By orange | Category: Out on the Town

Last night in Dublin city, Pantibar on Capel Street was packed to the rafters with eager punters. But the customers weren’t there to watch Barcelona trounce Manchester United, they were avidly listening to a distinguished triumvirate of legal experts expounding the legal and social nuances of civil partnership and marriage.