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Significantly the High Court acknowledged the lesbian couple and their child as a de facto family who enjoyed the rights granted to families under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The judge also called upon the Oireachtas to legislate for same-sex couple who raise children and recognise them as families.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights in the Republic of Ireland are regarded as some of the most progressive in Europe and the world. [1] [2] [3] Ireland is notable for its transformation from a country holding overwhelmingly conservative attitudes toward LGBTQ issues, in part due to the opposition by the Roman Catholic Church, to one holding overwhelmingly liberal views in ...
Print/export Download as PDF ... Pages in category "LGBTQ rights in the Republic of Ireland" ... List of laws and reports on LGBT rights in the Republic of Ireland; T.
The Green Party in Northern Ireland was the first party to come out in support of same-sex marriage in 2012 and drafted Northern Ireland's first LGBT-specific manifesto for the 2016 Assembly elections. [200] [201] The party also made history by running Northern Ireland's first ever transgender candidate for an election. [202]
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The Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 instituted civil partnership in Irish law. After the 2011 general election , the Fine Gael and Labour parties formed a coalition government , whose programme included the establishment of a Constitutional Convention to examine potential changes on specified issues ...
The Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 is an Act of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) which allows same-sex couples to enter into civil partnerships. The Act also provides rights for participants in long-term cohabiting relationships who have not entered into a civil partnership or marriage. There is no ...
The measure was signed into law by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, as the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland on 29 August 2015. [3] The Marriage Act 2015 , passed by the Oireachtas on 22 October 2015 and signed into law by the Presidential Commission on 29 October 2015, gave legislative effect to the amendment.