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Dutch transgender policewoman Willemijn Ahlers (top with flag) leads members of the European Gay Police Association march in this year’s LGBT Pride Parade in Dublin city centre. Gardai participating at the parade were banned from wearing their uniforms.
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(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
G-Force Garda Niall O’Connor (left) and Sgt. Paul Franey, Vice President of the European Gay Police Association with the President and Sabina Higgins at Aras an Uachtarain on Thursday.
A sizeable contingent of the EGPA will march in uniform at the Pride celebrations tomorrow while their Garda colleagues march in plain clothes.A spokesperson for the Garda press office said yesterday that officers attending Pride were off duty and as such were prohibited from wearing uniforms. The policy contrasts with usual practice in Britain and across Europe where police officers have been wearing uniforms in such marches for much of the past decade.
Uniform Ban At Pride March Criticised (Roisin Ingle, Irish Times)
(Sasko Lazarov, Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Chairman of the newly formed Fine Gael LGBT group, Jerry Buttimer TD (above), said he is delighted that the newly appointed Lord Mayor of Dublin, Naoise O’Muirí, will march with the Party’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group this Saturday at the annual Pride Parade in Dublin.
Deputy Buttimer said this year’s Pride Festival will be of particular significance to Fine Gael as it is the first year the Party will have an obvious presence at the parade.
“It is with a tremendous sense of pride that I will be taking part in this year’s parade, given that it is the first year Fine Gael will have a visible presence, in the form of our LGBT group which first met back in April.
New Lord Mayor Of Dublin To March With Pride With New FG LGBT Group (Fine Gael)