Monthly Archives: June 2013

Iowa Gay MarriageThis evening.

J Carl White writes:

Hi guys, I’m surprised you haven’t posted anything about the repeal of DOMA [Defence of Marriage Act] in the United States. This is huge news! Same sex people who have married can now receive federal benefits that were previously denied them. Equality at last! I am a Dubliner who has lived in the US since 1989. Myself and my partner, Miles have been together 23 years, married under California law for the last six, and this is the day we’ve been waiting for. Please post something about this momentous news, G’wan!

 

We’d better get an invite.

Prop. 8: Supreme Court clears way for gay marriage in California (LA Times)

(AP)

90305586903055849030558590305587Be like that.

Teacher Gregor Kerr confronts a tee-over-business-shirt-clad member of Ogra Fianna Fail at a protest outside Leinster House this evening over cuts in education for children with special needs including to Special Needs Assistants (SNAs).

What on earth were they doing there?

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Update:

Ian Woods writes:

I am an Ógra member and I was at the protest today. I believed that that cuts should be reversed as does my party and turned up to put pressure on the government to reverse this cut. I am 23 and like most Ógra members (who are all roughly the same age), bear no responsibility for the crisis.
Ógra has been fighting for reform in Fianna Fáil as well as the government in general is made up of a growing group of young, motivated people who believe in republicanism in its truest form: equality, liberty and fraternity. We have a right to protest these cuts, it was the motions we backed at the Ard Fheis which made this Fianna Fáil policy and resulted in the motion in the Dáil today.
We have a right to protest and to demonstrate what we stand for. Ógra is full of good, hard-working people who care enough to join a political party and fight for what they believe in. We stand for reversing these cuts and the hardship caused by these cuts should be the story of the day.