Around 250 students at NUI Galway have staged two separate demonstrations on campus, following heated exchanges on the issue of same-sex marriage.

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Around 250 students at NUI Galway have staged two separate demonstrations on campus, following heated exchanges on the issue of same-sex marriage.

The stand-off began after members of the university’s Christian Union society began campaigning for a ‘No’ vote in a Students’ Union referendum on the matter tomorrow.

The society’s auditor, Enoch Burke, said literature his members were distributing had been torn up by people with opposing views.

Pamphlets distributed by the group made reference to “men-boy relationships” and spoke of a “slide into an abyss of redefinition” regarding marriage.

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