Northern Ireland

DEAR readers, I give you Edwin Poots, above, front runner for the position of First Minister of Northern Ireland. He threw his dunce’s cap into the ring after the shock …
Read More

TABLING a motion for a ban on conversion therapy with party colleague John Stewart, Beattie, above,  told members of the Stormont, the Northern Ireland parliament, ‘I’m a straight man, I …
Read More

UNTIL the beginning of 2020 same-sex marriage wasn’t allowed in God-fearing Northern Ireland, although gay marriage was legalised in the rest of the Britain in 2013. Matters progressed when the …
Read More

YESTERDAY (Thursday) I reported in a Freethinker post that the Christian Institute had embarked on some silly scaremongering exercise, claiming that laws protecting religious bigots from hate-speech prosecutions on the …
Read More

NORTHERN Ireland woke to the news today (Tuesday) that same-sex marriage and abortion have been legalised, joining the rest of the UK.

A last ditch attempt to oppose the legislation  …
Read More

THOUSANDS took to the streets of Belfast last weekend for a Pride parade, but the BBC, which had paid £250.00 to be corporately represented at the event pulled out at …
Read More

SUPPORT in Britain for full marriage equality in Northern Ireland – the only part of the UK where it is illegal – has soared to 70 percent – up five …
Read More

ROBIN SWANN, of the Ulster Unionist Party, was among a number of Northern Ireland politicians who gathered yesterday (Thursday) to call for marriage equality, anti-bullying legislation and gender recognition reform.

…
Read More