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MARRIAGE BETWEEN SAME-SEX couples is now enshrined in Irish law after President Michael D. Higgins this evening gave legal effect to May’s referendum.
Áras an Úachtaráin has confirmed that President Higgins this evening signed the Thirty-Fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015.
The amendment was put to the Irish people in a referendum on 22 May and was passed by a margin of 62% to 38%.
There has been some delay in enacting the result of the referendum after a number of legal challenges were brought to the result.
But this evening, Áras an Úachtaráin has confirmed that Irish constitution has now been officially changed to reflect the right of same-sex couples to marry.
Minister for Justice and Equality Frances Fitzgerald this evening welcomed the signature by the President of the constitutional provision.
The department added that the government with introduce a Dáil bill next month that will make the necessary changes to allow the first such marriages to take place.
“In the coming weeks, we will see the new Marriage Bill 2015 introduced to make the necessary changes in the law and to make it a reality that in Ireland in 2015, marriages will be possible between people without distinction as to their sex,” the minister said this evening.
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Can you do a similar explainer on copper piping please?
My big fat gypsy horn..
The Chinese and their quest for eternal life BS, their superstitious belief that Rhino horn,which is no different that what your fingernails consist of, can cure cancer or give impotent old men the horn again (no pun intended).
It is a tragedy that so many species of animals will be extinct in the wild because of crap like this.
Another magnificent animal with a similar fate…
Chinese culture must be flawed if they believe this bull shit . People should set the example . Killing rhinos is wrong!
Give us an N give us a A give us a C give us a K give us an etc…
What an nacketc ?
It’s a chant,I take it you have not been too bare knuckle fight like us..
Uuuggghhh, I give up…
Fixed the article for you. ‘Because they can sell it to ignorant dumbos too stupid to understand basic biology.’
For any of those who read this article.. Look up group called STS – Saving The Survivors… Incredible work that these people do to help these animals. Read the story of an amazing Rhino called Hope. Education is the key word in saving our wildlife from these uneducated, greedy, f….ing barbarians. The devastation that these sub humans leave in their killing for a useless horn or tusk’s that only these animals need is truly heartbreaking. These A-Hole’s will eventually be the down fall of the human race.
The problem is with the buyers not necessarily the poachers. The buyers are generally middle to upper class and educated.
‘Why do people steal rhino horn ?’
‘Cos it’s our culture boss and ye don’t understand’
To pay Thelma for those over the top dresses?
73 million reasons…..
Ok if there is any travellers reading this i will sell you my toe nails for a tenner, talk soon boss
What happened to painting them pink with poisonous dye and flooding the market with thousands of kilos of genetically indistinguishable rhino horn grown in a lab?
Because people suck.
Just sell them crushed up passed away bull how do the Chinese know the difference that’s some good rino tea there zing the another digestive
Having worked in the Far East I can recall the most odious concoctions of flora and fauna being touted as ‘medicine’ among Chinese communities and at prices that only the well heeled, so presumably educated, could afford. The level of superstition plus irrational beliefs in such concepts as lucky and unlucky numbers, Feng Shi and spirit appeasement among the professional classes I dealt with was quite amazing. Many reminded me of the auld ‘pisheogs’ my rural Granny told me about as held by old timers in her youth but then already dying fast. Belief in the ‘properties’ of bits of poor beasties is rampant. My steadfast refusal to eat shark fin soup was regarded as very odd and even insulting to a host. Strange folk with strange ways indeed!
for the ‘horn’?
Terrible evil trade both the Rhino and African elephant will be extinct in the wild in 15 years 25000 African elephants poached and killed every year for their ivory
If Chinese were to believe poachers balls are aphrodisiac poachers would go extinct in a couple years
And plenty of people in the west think that traditional Chinese medicine is superior to scientifically proven modern medicine and that big pharma are the bad guys. Maybe they can’t buy ground up rhino horn over here but they still support this dubious industry enabling practises like this by paying through the nose for other products that aren’t regulated or tested.
They’re a blight on society those Chinese and that’s only their food
Twice now I’ve read that headline as “why do horny people steal rhinos?”
Because they are c#$ts. That’s why.
Because stupid people think that taking it will make them more of a man having sex due to the placebo effect and the killing of an innocent animal.
It is the exact same stuff as your finger and toe nails, what don’t they chew them as cattle and pigs have hoofs and that is the same… Stupid people are not happy unless they are being cruel…
Like the main reason and only one of them by China to want and are using Chinese people plantation into Tibet as well but one reason is Ophiocordyceps sinensis and how billions of Yuan are spent on it in China as it is harvested in Tibet. Chinese gangsters are involved in it supported by the Chinese state. China’s state main use for it is for their athletes as well as for themselves and it does have biological effects on the athletes in speed and strength. But no one talks about that??? It is people who ruin the biodiversity of this planet and nature might have a surprise for us if we don’t stop raping this planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_sinensis
It has been observed that without the larger animals like elephants, Rhino etc and other large animals that the plains and the places they live would all turn to deserts. That their dung with the bacteria in it keeps the plants and biodiversity going that killing these larger animals disrupts the bacterial in the soil and therefore the plants. Them eating the plants also has a biodiversity on other plants and trees, that without them then the people in those countries could not survive. So killing these animals only is killing themselves slowly and in a time of global warming then that is crazy, people are killing their childrens future lives doing this… Will they ever wake up?
If people are naive enough to think that it’s only Travellers that steal rhino horns then I feel sorry for them. It’s one of the biggest market for criminals, a dispicable act by these gangsters
Because their horny
To get to the other side
I blame Micheal flatley
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