LGBTI Archives - Social Democrats

30 June 2018

Greater urgency needed on equality reforms for LGBTI people

As Dublin celebrates with the annual Pride Parade, the Social Democrats today call on the government to show much greater urgency in driving reforms to improve the human rights of LGBTI people in Ireland. The party’s co-leaders Róisín Shortall TD and Catherine Murphy TD said it was disappointing, 25 years after homosexuality was decriminalised, that […]

24 June 2017

New Taoiseach must spearhead changes to deliver real equality for LGBTI people

The new Taoiseach and government must spearhead changes to deliver real equality for LGBTI people, the Social Democrats said today. Speaking ahead of the annual Pride Parade, the party’s co-leaders Catherine Murphy TD and Róisín Shortall TD said the struggle for equality is not complete and it is vitally important to build on recent progress. […]