Ursula Halligan

Germany’s opposition parties have demanded that Berlin’s grand coalition follow Ireland’s example and legalise same-sex marriage.Friday’s vote, and Sa(...)

The overwhelming victory for the Yes side in the marriage equality referendum is not as good as it looks. It’s much better. It looks extrao(...)

Saturday’s strong Yes vote is a statement that “it’s okay to be gay” in modern day Ireland, according to Minister for Agriculture and Fine Gael direct(...)

Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin has welcomed the strong showing of the Yes campaign in the marriage equality referendum and said it reflected the fu(...)

The counting is continuing, but the smiles of all those who voted Yes are widening. The chests of Yes campaigners are being pushed out; the tears and (...)

For a while now, I’ve imagined how I’m going to vote in the marriage referendum on Friday. Not the X in the Yes box, but physically how I’m going t(...)

The Yes Equality campaign has launched a new series of campaign posters which they say feature the “real lesbian and gay citizens of Ireland” from all(...)

Prof Aidan Halligan, the UK-based Irish doctor who turned down the chance to become the first head of the Health Service Executive (HSE) more than a d(...)

Gerry Adams climbs up a ladder to put up a Sinn Féin poster on a lamp-post outside Government Buildings. The party’s Dublin European election candidat(...)

“All of us in this room are here because we know that, all too often, women in media see a ‘keep out’ sign on the door of every serious discussion,(...)