marriage referendum

German Ferreiroa has become one of the busiest tattoo artists in Dublin and his bold take on the traditional style has made people look twice in admiration and awe. German, or Gerfer_tattoo to his Instagram fans, began tattooing the male…

I have experienced two very beautiful moments during my teaching career. One was in 2014 when I was teaching 4th Class. Two occurrences complemented one another which culminated in the first of the beautiful moments. The first was that…

Its two years since Ireland voted in favour of a constitutional change to allow gay people to marry.  #MarRef was a monumental step for gay rights. But the run up to referendum was a difficult time for gay people when even simply watching a…

This week, the USI proposed some changes, Leo Varadkar proposed an end to the JobBridge scheme, and everyone proposed that we celebrate some turtles. It was also reported that Amber Heard was filing for a restraining order against Johnny…

How many of us have ever read our Constitution? How many of us have had ten minutes to kill to sit down and actually see what it says? One might be curious when there are so many issues facing modern Ireland where we hear constitutional…

Campaign posters are starting to go up. Enda’s dissolving the Dáil. Endless streams of politicians are knocking on your door. 2016’s general election is only weeks away. So who are you going to vote for? If you can’t tell your Shatters…

When Ireland voted for gay marriage last year, it became the first country to do so via public ballot. It was an important moment in Irish history and in LGBTQI+ history. But referenda and marriage equality are rarely good bedfellows.…

Over the weekend, a draft of Labour’s new election campaign poster was leaked to the public. We’ve all seen the poster. It’s everywhere. It depicts Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin and Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams as a newly married gay…

It's that time of year again. The end of it. The time when Christmas has already been going on for about four months and we're just waiting for it to finally be over. When we're all trying to convince ourselves that 2016 might just be our…

This week, Twitter watched Shia LaBeouf watch himself, protested the Abbey's 1916 centenary programme, and celebrated as the marriage equality bill was finally signed into law. We also shared our condolences for the 128 people killed in gun…