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Sun 08 Aug 2010Protesters criticise partnership laws
Over 2,000 people took part in a march in Dublin this afternoon to highlight shortcomings in the civil partnership legislation introduced recently by the Government.
The Civil Partnership Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2009, signed into law last month, extended marriage-like benefits to gay and lesbian couples in some areas of property, social welfare, succession, maintenance, pensions and tax.
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