Thousands of people may come forward to sue the State and religious orders over forced and illegal adoptions following the settlement of a high-profile case in the High Court.

Professionals working with young people must be properly trained about transgender issues which many of them do not understand, researchers have said.

Ian McKellen said it was a point of deep "principle" as he joined hundreds of protesters outside the Russian embassy in London voicing their anger against a "purge" of gay men in Chechnya.

A Cork based company has reported a brilliant response from the Irish public to a commemorative t-shirt designed to show solidarity with those who lost their lives in the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando, Florida last week.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has called the Orlando shootings "an outrage".

Assembly members in Northern Ireland are to vote on a proposal to legalise same-sex marriage in the region.

Caitlyn Jenner has visited an LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender] Centre's Youth Program in Los Angeles.

Ireland’s equality legislation is a “barrier to dignity in the workplace” for gay and lesbian national school teachers.

Catholics for Choice believes people can make their own judgements about sex and reproduction, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

The head of the Limerick Garda Division yesterday challenged a claim that greater leadership is needed from the force’s management on issues relating to the gay community.

As if on cue, the sun broke through just as the March for Marriage came to a halt outside the shut Department of Justice.

Schools will be asked to improve their efforts to combat bullying with recommendations on how to achieve it from a forum being set up by the Government.

THOUSANDS of people took to the streets of Dublin yesterday to march for civil marriage equality.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Dublin this afternoon to march for civil marriage equality.

Thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of Dublin today to march for civil marriage equality.

IT is sad and a terrible waste of potential that young people are having to leave rural communities because of their sexual orientation, a Government minister said yesterday.

I’M aghast at Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone’s blind assertion that homosexuality is linked to paedophilia (April 12).

Marriage rights are the main priority for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Ireland, according to a survey due out today.

THE criteria used to determine who may or may not give blood are flawed, as Dr William Murphy, national medical director of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service, pointed out recently.

LABOUR LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) welcomes the Domestic Partnerships Bill, to be introduced shortly in the Seanad by Senator David Norris.