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17/12/2014
Same Sex Marriage Referendum Due Next May
A referendum on same-sex marriage will be held in May 2015, the Cabinet has revealed.
The marriage referendum will be one of a number of referendums held next May, with the first week of May being speculated as a possible timeframe.
Welcoming the news, Tánaiste Joan Burton said: "The fact that this referendum is now to take place is a mark of the progress that has taken place in this country in recent years and decades, and indicates the extent to which attitudes to lesbian and gay people have changed."
(MH/CD)
The marriage referendum will be one of a number of referendums held next May, with the first week of May being speculated as a possible timeframe.
Welcoming the news, Tánaiste Joan Burton said: "The fact that this referendum is now to take place is a mark of the progress that has taken place in this country in recent years and decades, and indicates the extent to which attitudes to lesbian and gay people have changed."
(MH/CD)
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