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Ireland voted ‘Yes’ for marriage equality in 2015 On this day in 2015 Ireland has overwhelmingly to introduce same sex civil marriages. Voters approved marriage equality with over 60% of people who voted supporting a change to the country’s constitution. The history making vote made Ireland the 20th country to allow same sex couples to […]
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22 May 2023 /
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Leo Varadkar will return to be the leader of Ireland when he is reappointed as Taoiseach today, following a historic coalition reshuffle. Varadkar held the position from 2017 to 2020. He stepped down following a landmark election where his party entered into a three -way coalition with their traditional rivals. Varadkar, who leads the Fine […]
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17 Dec 2022 |
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Irish-born and Berlin-based lesbian artist Wallis Bird shares Go, a song about beginnings and having the strength to stand out from the crowd to pursue passions and desires. Go is about letting go and embracing the uncertainty of what’s in store, because life’s too short to not try. Go follows the release of Aquarius, Power of […]
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30 Apr 2022 |
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Irish PM Leo Varadkar has reactivated his medical licence and will return to working as a doctor one day a week. Ireland’s leader was a GP before he entered politics, and now he’s doing his part during the COVID-19 crisis by heading back into the hospital to help hands on. His office confirmed to the […]
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6 Apr 2020 |
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Leo Varadkar, the Taoiseach of Ireland has announced he intends to resign as the country’s leader on Thursday after the countries recent election process ended in a deadlock. Varadkar’s party Fine Gael suffered a crushing defeat at the 8 February election which ended with votes split three ways among his party, republican party Fianna Fáil, and Sinn […]
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22 Feb 2020 |
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Irish band The Cranberries have released the first single from the final album. All Over Now comes ahead of their album In The End – which is due to be released on April 26th. The band’s final album features the vocals of lead singer Dolores O’Riordan who died in early 2018. Her death in a London hotel was […]
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17 Mar 2019 |
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Elton John says Ireland’s historic vote that will allow abortion to be legalised is a great example of how mindsets can change. according the news service Reuters. The singer made the observation during a trip to Ukraine where he is promoting AIDS awareness. Elton has traveled to the country regularly over the years and performed […]
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29 May 2018 |
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Audience’s in China won’t be seeing this year’s Eurovision final after the local broadcaster censored parts of the semi-finals broadcast. Eurovision has strict rules for broadcasters and one of the big ones is you can’t censor out parts of the performances. When the first Semi-Final aired in China the local broadcaster took out the performance […]
Tags: Eurovision, gay, Ireland, Ryan O’Shaughnessy
12 May 2018 |
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Ireland have qualified for the Eurovision final for the first time in five years with audiences loving Ryan O’Shaughnessy’s perfomance of ‘Together’. Just like in the video for the song, his live performance included two boys doing an interpretive dance depiction of a gay couple breaking up. Ireland was one of ten countries to make it […]
Tags: Eurovision, Ireland, Netta, Ryan O’Shaughnessy, Toy
10 May 2018 |
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As Australian long drawn out debate over marriage equality drags on, the head of the ‘Yes’ campaign is adamant that one side of the debate will be sticking to a positive message. “We have got to this point by being a positive and respectful campaign, and we are going to remain utterly, totally and unendingly […]
Tags: ABS, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Marriage Equality, Equality Campaign, gay, Intersex, Ireland, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, marriage equality, marriage survey, positive, postal survey, queer, Same Sex Marriage, Tiernan Brady, trans*, transgender
27 Sep 2017 |
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