Michelle O’Neill speaking at the PinkNews Summer Reception in Belfast. (Darren Kidd) First minister-designate Michelle O’Neill has said banning conversion therapy would be one of her top priorities if an executive is formed in Northern Ireland. Speaking to PinkNews at its Summer Pride Reception in Stormont, O’Neill said Northern Ireland’s elected representatives should form an
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Michelle O’Neill arrives at the polling station set in St Patricks primary school, in Clonoe, in Co Tyrone, on May 5, 2022. (PAUL FAITH/AFP via Getty) For the first time ever, Sinn Féin is projected to become the biggest party at Stormont, meaning the DUP could lose the first minister post. If those projections come
A queer nightclub in Northern Ireland isn’t changing it’s name in protest against Vladimir Putin. (Google Maps/Getty Images) The Kremlin nightclub in Belfast, Northern Ireland has said it has no plans to change its name anytime soon. The decades-old bar, on Donegall Road, is one of the country’s largest LGBT+ nightclubs, promising partygoers a “sexy
Conversion therapy is often carried out by so-called Christian groups in Northern Ireland. (Envato) Ministers in Northern Ireland have committed to banning traumatising conversion therapy in a groundbreaking move for the territory’s LGBT+ community. Conversion therapy is defined as the effort to change a person’s sexuality or gender identity. It has been condemned by most
Authorities in Northern Ireland arrested a 26-year-old man in connection to a suspected homophobic attack which saw two men brutally battered with a tyre iron in their home. The Police Service of Northern Ireland, according to gcn, said that on Tuesday morning (August 4) two individuals broke into a property in Lurgan, in County Armagh.
A painted mural featuring murdered journalist Lyra McKee (PAUL FAITH/AFP via Getty Images) A man has been arrested by police investigating the murder of queer Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee. McKee was shot dead on the streets of Derry in April 2019 while reporting on unrest in the city, with dissident republican group the New
A powerful photo of a lesbian couple on their wedding day in Derry, Northern Ireland has gone viral after same-sex marriage finally became legal in the territory today (January 13). It is four months today since Emma Bradley and Danielle Doherty from Derry, Northern Ireland, tied the knot. The couple would have loved to be
Northern Ireland’s secretary of state Julian Smith has officially signed a regulation to introduce same-sex marriage by Valentine’s Day 2020. Until October, the province was the only place in the British Isles (alongside the island of Sark) that had not legalised equal marriage. In July Westminster MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of changing the law
Thousands marched for same-sex marriage on June 13, 2015 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Charles McQuillan/Getty) Preparations for introducing same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland are going full steam ahead, with one senior minister declaring it will be “the law of the land” by 2020. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where same-sex marriage