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Ireland rejects lesbian marriage

December 14, 2006 7:05 pm · Post your comment (No Comments)

Ireland’s High Court has rejected a lesbian couple’s attempt to have their marriage legally recognised.

Katharine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan said that failure to recognise their marriage breached their rights.

The two were married in 2003 in British Columbia, Canada, after that province legalised same-sex marriage.

They live in Ireland and have been a couple for 25 years. They are the first homosexual couple to go to court over the issue after being married abroad.

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Tags: civil-rights

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