Examiner 180: The long and winding road to equality  

The pages of the Examiner over the decades shows the often painfully slow pathway to equal rights for LGBTI+ people in Ireland

IRISH PRIDE: Panti Bliss celebrates the passing of the marriage referendum at the Central Count Centre in Dublin Castle, on May 23, 2015. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire.

Page 16 of the then-Cork Examiner on May 8, 1979, had a bit of everything.

It was a historic day in Rhodesia as the country's elected parliament met for the first time, marking the end of white minority rule.