Gay icon Panti Bliss got a dose of the “planning blues” yesterday as Dublin City Council refused planning retention for her contentious 3.5m-high illuminated sign at the landmark Panti Bar venue.

On May 22, 2015, Ireland became the first country in the world to say yes to same-sex marriage, voting by 62.1% to change the constitution. Clodagh Finn asks five people how their lives have changed.

The Ryan family get their health assessed in Doctor in the House on TV3 on Wednesday at 9pm.

The Queen of Ireland is getting its Irish premiere today the 21st of October with a live stream from the Light House cinema in Dublin ahead of its release around the country on the 23rd of the month.

An international media delegation has arrived to explore Ireland as a possible LGBT tourism hotspot.

The annual search for individuals and groups who have heartened and inspired the nation is under way, as nominations open for the 2015 People of the Year Awards.

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WHO WOULD ever have thought, even six months ago, that the Government would end up cresting on a wave of gay love, asks Alison O’Connor.

The vote to enshrine gay marriage in the constitution has been heralded as a new era with tears and joy.

PantiBar, one of the country’s best-known gay venues, yesterday donated €750 to a cancer charity after pleading guilty to breaking the smoking ban.

A Fianna Fáil councillor has called for the removal of the LGBT community’s rainbow flag from above Cork’s City Hall, one of the world’s longest cruise liners docked in Cork today and Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard has been voted the 2015 Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

It is unprecedented — but entirely fitting — that two individuals who triggered the resignations of a minister for justice and a Garda commissioner, while forcing a Taoiseach to change his tune, should be honoured among the recipients of the People of the Year awards. But that is precisely what happened at the weekend, bringing to a close, for now, a chapter of the saga surrounding garda whistleblowers Maurice McCabe and John Wilson who have exposed wholesale corruption within the gardaí.

Whistleblowers Maurice McCabe and John Wilson have been honoured for their efforts to expose corruption in An Garda Síochána at an awards ceremony at the weekend.

So what were you doing when you first heard that song and saw that video asks Richard Fitzpatrick?

Rory O’Neill, aka Panti, tells Caroline O’Doherty we need to man up to legalising drugs and why he doesn’t want to marry as it’s way too boring.

And received a glowing reception from the crowd.

Six well-known people feature in a new video, explaining what happened when they came out to family and friends.

The Rubberbandits have done it again with a new video that is bound to amuse and cause offence in equal measure.

Rory O’Neill says people are expecting him to be a freedom fighter on political issues but there’s more to him than that.

As 156 golfers and 100,000 fans prepare to descend on Fota Island Resort, Dave Kenny says staff are ready for the challenge

The centre of a proper media ruckus earlier in the year, drag queen Panti emerged from ‘Pantigate’ with head held high, stilettos sharpened and pride intact.

Ray D'arcy returns with the series School Around the Corner on RTE One at 6.30pm tonight.

The Consumer Show is back, and Friday brings the final of the UK version of Masterchef.

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A war of words has erupted over Sinn Féin’s withdrawal from a cross-party video supporting New York’s main gay-friendly St Patrick’s Day parade.

TV and radio stations may be less likely to face sanctions in future under the Broadcasting Act for remarks made on air.

DRAG artist Panti Bliss’s speech on homophobia, in the Abbey Theatre on February 2, is one of the greats of Irish politics, up there with Robert Emmet’s parting words. For anyone who has followed Bliss’s (real name Rory O’Neill) career, this is not surprising.

I support Rory O’Neill’s contention, on the show, Sunday with Miriam, that it is no longer reasonable to debate the question of whether the Irish State should treat gay people differently.

Some people in the Catholic Church may be homophobic and using its teaching against gay people, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin has admitted.

Gay rights activist Rory O’Neill, whose comments on homophobia resulted in RTÉ paying an €85,000 legal settlement, said that he hopes the episode has opened a proper debate about equality.

A long and extensive apology proposed by journalist John Waters following comments made about him on The Saturday Night Show was “not acceptable” to RTÉ, the broadcaster said.

I am a 28-year-old warehouse worker in Dublin, originally from America.

WHEN did Barack Obama cease to be homophobic? Is Enda Kenny redeemed from his homophobia? If some of the hoopla of recent days is to be taken seriously, then anybody who doesn’t favour same sex marriage can be described as homophobic.

Drag artist Miss Panti’s impassioned speech about the vulnerability of gay people in society has exposed shallowness of the same-sex marriage debate

The debate about homophobia in Ireland took centre stage in the Dáil with Fine Gael TD Jerry Buttimer describing how he was “beaten, spat at, chased, harassed and mocked because of who I am”.

Broadcaster defends €85k payout over ‘homophobia’ claims

From Russia to Ireland, gay rights activists are asserting themselves as never before, writes Dan Buckley