Earlier this year, we here in the Republic celebrated two years since the passing of 2015’s marriage referendum. Meanwhile, mere miles away, our LGBT+ neighbours to the north have not been so lucky.
On August 17, Belfast’s High Court dismissed two cases challenging the lack of provision for same-sex marriage in the country. One of the cases was take by two couples – ex GCN staffer, Grainne Close and Shannon Sickles, and Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane – the first gay and first lesbian couples to become civil partners in the UK in 2005 (all pictured above).