The Small Business Column: Ashers Bakery Controversy

In this week’s column, Kehlan looks at the Ashers Bakery controversy in Northern Ireland and why it has provided a valuable lesson to businesses and business owners.

The past few weeks have been ones of profound change in Ireland, the southern half at least. Never in their wildest dreams could the yes campaign have foreseen such a landslide victory for marriage equality.

Gay rights advocate and campaigner Panty Bliss drew on the words of WB Yeats, saying “everything had changed, changed utterly”.