INSIDE OUT
When he moved to Ireland ive years ago to be with his Irish partner, Jonathan Weir began volunteering with LGBT+ organisations so that he could become more involved with the community. This experience has led him to becoming the Ireland Country Manager with OUTstanding, a global membership organisation for businesses that strives for positive change in the workplace for LGBT+ people.
Photo by Babs Daly.
I am originally from the North West of England. I was born in Chester, which is a beautiful city, and grew up in a different town called Ellesmere Port. I moved to Dublin in 2013 and haven’t looked back since.
The main reason for the move was that my boyfriend, now my fiancé, is from Ireland originally and his work took him back home to Dublin. I was working in publishing at that point. I had been in my then job for nine or ten years at that stage, and it just seemed like a really great time to make the move.