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Liberty Hall, Dublin This afternoon (top) and this evening (middle and above)

Purdy.

The crown of Liberty Hall lit up all rainbow-y marking the launch last night of Trade Unionists for Civil Marriage Equality, an alliance of trade union members that will campaign for a Yes vote in the May Marriage referendum whatsit.

Damn picket-crazy same sexers.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Update:

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The launch of Trade Unionists for Civil Marriage Equality at Liberty Hall last night.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Meanwhile….

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A campaigning Valentine limerick from Buzz.

Positively Moynesian.

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This afternoon.

At the Shrine of Saint Valentine.

Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare, Leighlin and President of Catholic marriage service Accord, at the not at all creepy ‘blessing of the engaged couple ‘Leona Gallagher and Paul McNulty at the Shrine of Saint Valentine Whitefriar Street Church, Dublin.

New Accord poll findings, published today, claim 65 percent believe a child is “more likely to grow up happy if raised in a home with a loving mother and father”.

Bless.

Accord

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

10974461_930666990278491_7033474425007356216_oMaura Derrane and Daithi O’Se of RTÉ One’s Today show

An inclusive wedding competition?

Get up the yard.

If you’ve found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with and plan to take that trip down the aisle then the Today show wedding competition is for you.

“This will be the Today show wedding,” explains [Today show host] Maura Derrane. “You must to be available to get married at the end of April and of course, you’ll have to have a valid wedding licence [you have to be of opposite sex to obtain a wedding license]. We’ll film the wedding for the Today show and you never know Dáithí and I could turn up!”

RTÉ Today (Facebook)

Meanwhile, on Newstalk…

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They do!

Open To All, Sean Moncreiff (Newstalk)

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The Government today indicated that the referendum on civil marriage equality will be held in May 2015.

Kieran Rose of GLEN [Gay and Lesbian Equality Network} write:

“We welcome the Government decision to outline the timeframe for the referendum. The referendum will put the question of equality in the Constitution for lesbian and gay couples to the people, as recommended by the Constitutional Convention. The referendum, if carried, will complete the remarkable journey to Constitutional equality for lesbian and gay people in Ireland

“We look forward to a positive campaign which focuses on the value of marriage to everyone in Irish society and explains why marriage matters to lesbian and gay couples”

FIGHT!

GLEN

USI

IT Carlow SU 600
Cork IT SU 600
University College Cork SU 3500
IT Tralee SU 250
Limerick IT SU 264
Waterford IT SU 450
NUI, Galway SU: 3000
Maynooth Students’ Union: 2500
Galway Mayo IT SU: 1080
IT Sligo SU: 950
St Angela’s College, Sligo SU: 47
Athlone IT SU: 450
Letterkenny IT SU: 220
Dundalk IT SU: 100
St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra SU – 468
IT Tallaght SU – 700
Dublin City University SU – 800
Trinity College Dublin SU – 3150
IT Blanchardstown – 156
Dublin IT – 750
National College of Ireland SU – 175

Total – 20,210

FIGHT!

20,000 new student voters registered (Union of Students In Ireland)