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Thu 03 Mar 2010New law may be required to legalise up to 3,000 marriages at embassies
THE GOVERNMENT has said it may have to pass new legislation to legalise the marriages of up to 3,000 foreign couples, who married at their country’s embassies in Dublin.
But it warned yesterday that there are complicated legal issues involved in registering the marriages, which have been deemed illegal because no official registrar was present at the ceremonies.
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