2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1069+ words) One evening in early 2013, Aidan Mullally found himself nervously hovering outside the Foggy Dew pub in Dublin city centre. After “a bad Christmas” overshadowed by grief, Mullally had taken to Google in search of a sense of community. He stumbled…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (562+ words) Ireland’s first-ever permanent LGBTQ museum exhibition has opened in Cork. The exhibition, “We Were Always Here”, opened on Wednesday at the Cork Public Museum in Fitzgerald Park and is a collaboration with the Cork LGBT Archive and features both a…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (534+ words) Thousands of people attended the seventh annual transgender and intersex pride march in Dublin on Saturday, calling for better access to healthcare. The crowd chanted “Our bodies, our lives, our right to decide” as people marched from City Hall to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (666+ words) Social media giant Meta must be challenged for failing to stop the amplification of homophobic and racist posts on its social networking site Facebook, the Dáil has been told. Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne expressed “deep concern” about Facebook, which…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1605+ words) Kirsty Lang always thought she was Irish. The journalist, broadcaster and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz grew up believing she had inherited the personality, temperament and red hair of her Irish grandmother. They were the only two…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (308+ words) Overall, arrests for “gross indecency” or buggery remained low until the late 1950s. There were “whisper networks”, hotels where blind eyes were turned and sometimes class and religious boundaries were traversed: “In August 1925, a middle-class Presbyterian in his mid forties was…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (834+ words) What do you call a Catholic wedding that’s not a wedding? In Germany, at least, you call it a “blessing ceremony for loving couples”. That’s the term devised by bishops and lay Catholics in new guidelines allowing priests bless all…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (404+ words) Sir, – As the Dublin-born son of an Irish mother and a Ghanaian father, I found Bertie Ahern’s remarks about “the Africans” (May 13th) both depressing and revealing. Many of us who grew up visibly different in Ireland carry a quiet, lingering…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (217+ words) Robinson’s address also had an edge because of a contemporary suggestion that emigrants might be allowed to elect three Irish senators and because she questioned collective amnesia by quoting Eavan Boland’s poem The Emigrant Irish: “Like oil lamps, we put…...

4+ mon, 14+ hour ago   (855+ words) The Irish Times The BBC’s First Homosexual review: A poignant, revelatory look at an era when gay liberation remained a mirage In Stephen M Hornby’s play, a young gay man tries to find his way in a hostile…...