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Same-sex parents hope that talking to TDs about civil union in advance of next month's Heads of Bill will have an impact, writes Róisín Ingle

Seventeen-year-old Clare O'Connell knew exactly the message she wanted to get across to her local TDs when she and her family met them to discuss the issue of same-sex marriage in Leinster House earlier this week.