"Politics in Northern Ireland is bad for LGBT people" - Gavin Boyd from @TRPNI on leaked draft DUP/SF agreement text

Feb 22, 2018, 09:37 AM

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"Our LGBT community MUST enjoy the same rights as those in the rest of Ireland". "...There can be no return to the status quo". The words of Sinn Fein leader in the North - Michelle O'Neill. But were they just about to renege on their promise - and sign up to the leaked draft deal document? Where was the Sinn Fein pledge on gay marriage provided for within that draft? The Secretary of State Karen Bradley says the government regards same sex marriage as a devolved matter which should be dealt with by the Stormont Assembly. Gavin Boyd from the Rainbow Project reacts.