Category: Ireland
Owner of gay sauna awarded €25k compensation over unfair dismissal
The manager of a hotel leisure centre who was dismissed after he opened a gay sauna has been awarded more than €25,000 in compensation.
Publisher branded a homophobe after refusing to print gay magazine
The owner of a Portadown media organisation has been labelled a homophobe after he refused to print a magazine for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Northern Ireland.
Ryanair boss never wrong…
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary denies that the company keeps employees in slave-like contracts and repeat the lawsuit against them may never end up in a Norwegian court.
Hardcore porn ‘downloaded at the Vatican’
Pornographic websites featuring sadomasochism, transsexuals and bondage have been downloaded within the Vatican, it has been claimed.
Committed advocate for gay law reform
Christopher Robson, who has died aged 72, said when the Civil Partnership Act was passed in 2010 that he and his partner Bill Foley had spent half of their 35-year relationship as criminals in the eyes of the State before homosexuality was decriminalised in 1993.
The European Parliament wants to outlaw homophobic crime and speech in the EU
Today the European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution on strengthening the fight against racism, xenophobia and hate crime. The text calls on the European Commission to add homophobia and transphobia to the list of EU-sanctioned hate speech and violence.