Tag: lgbt
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Parting Shot: GCN: Justice is in sight for men convicted under anti-gay laws.
March 2026 By Karl Hayden. Published in the GCN, March 2026 Intimate and loving consensual relationships between men in Ireland have been criminalised for hundreds of years. First common law, then English law, then Irish law treated gay men not as citizens but as criminals. The 1533 Buggery Act carried the death penalty. The Offences…
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Op Ed: Irish Times: Ireland’s anti-gay laws have left a long and dark legacy
2nd March 2026 By Brian Sheehan. Published in the Irish Times, 2nd March 2026 In Tullow, Co. Carlow in the late 1960s there was a cluster of court cases involving up to 20 men, including three juveniles aged 15, 16 and 17 years, who were charged under the anti-gay laws then in force. Almost all…
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Media Release: LGBT+ Restorative Justice Campaign Welcomes Cabinet Approval of Historic Disregard Scheme
4th Feb 2026 The LGBT+ Restorative Justice Campaign welcomes the decision of the Government, taken at Cabinet this morning (4th Feb), to approve the establishment of a Disregard Scheme for convictions arising from historic anti-gay laws, for which legislation will be brought to the Dáil as amendments to the Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous…
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Media Release: Strong welcome for Working Group report on Disregards for past gay convictions.
1st July 2025 This evening the Government have published the final report of the Department of Justice’s ‘Working Group to Examine the Disregards for convictions of relating to consensual sexual activity between Men’. The LGBT Restorative Justice Campaign welcome the report and the approach that the Working Group has taken to delivering on Disregards for…
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Media Release: Disregard Scheme offers the opportunity to right grave injustices.
1st July 2025 The LGBT Restorative Justice Campaign welcomes the announcement by the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee of a public consultation on the proposed scheme to disregard the historic convictions of gay and bisexual men for consensual same-sex activities. “A grave injustice was done to gay and bisexual men who were arrested, charged, prosecuted,…
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