Sport
Kevin Penrose, an active Gaelic football (GAA) player, who publicly came out in February, has urged other sports people to come out. Kevin, who also works as a travel blog influencer, is among a small cohort of openly gay sportsmen – a small list, which includes Jake Daniels and Donal og Cusack. Kev
LGBTQ+ News
Irish TV presenter Brendan Courtney, the first openly gay presenter in Ireland, has warned of a rise in “anti-gay rhetoric” after he was attacked in Dublin. Speaking on Instragam, the TV star, 53, said he raised the case to highlight that attacks like this are still happening and described the event
LGBTQ+ News
The most decorated Irish Paralympic athlete of all time, Katie-George Dunlevy, discovered she had retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision, when she was not yet 12 years old. Now the English-born, out gay athlete, who won a gold and two silver medals at this ye
LGBTQ+ News
Yousef Palani (23) of Iraqi descent has received two life sentences for the murders of two gay men in Sligo, Ireland in April 2022. Aidan Moffitt (42) and Michael Snee (58) were found murdered in their own homes, 1km apart, in the space of 24 hours. Aidan Moffitt was found murdered at his home on th
News
The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) is amending its gender participation policy for the forthcoming season, preventing transgender women from playing contact female rugby.
Arts
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General News
Two women are the first same-sex couple in Ireland to both be recognised as legal co-parents.
Community
How gay men have overcome the challenges of living in rural communities.
General News
A lesbian refugee from Zimbabwe, who was facing death threats from her own family, has been denied asylum by Irish authorities which argued her claim ‘lacked credibility’.
General News
The Northern Ireland government have amended a law which was preventing same-sex couples from converting civil partnerships into marriages, meaning the country now has complete marriage equality.
General News
A trans woman named Anna Montgomery, 20, was left with facial injuries after she was attacked in a bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland.