Fermoy Municipal District Council is to issue an ultimatum to its Polish twinned area to backtrack on discriminating against the LGBT community, or it will sever all ties with it.

A new form of boycott — disengagement — is gathering momentum in an effort to defend values not always shared by everyone, individuals or communities, in a relationship.

Fermoy in Cork is to suspend or terminate its twinning arrangement with a town in Poland that has declared itself an "LGBT-Free Zone".