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Sat 03 Mar 2008We've come out but can't come home, say gays with US
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AMERICA:LIKE MANY married couples in their 50s, Annie Rogers and Íde O'Carroll are thinking about retirement. The pair plan to move from Amherst, Massachusetts, to Lismore, Co Waterford, where they already have a house.
Íde, who is Irish, runs an international social research consultancy that takes her to Ireland for work, often for months at a time. Annie, who teaches psychology at the nearby university, spends as much time as she can in Ireland but, as a US citizen, can only stay for three months at a time.
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