No: 18 Zappone & Gilligan V Revenue Commisioners 2006
by Monnine Griith
My first memory of Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan was seeing them on the news in October 2006, outside the Four Courts, as they began their quest through the Irish courts to have their Canadian marriage recognised here in Ireland. They had married in Vancouver in September 2003, months after marriage equality had been introduced in British Colombia. It was the first time I had seen a lesbian couple talk about their love, their deep commitment to each other, and their long-term relationship in public. It was the first time I had seen or heard about a married lesbian couple. It seems funny now, but we lived in a different country then. A less equal, less open, more frightened one.