Government urged to change law to recognise same-sex marriages

SAME-SEX marriages are a human right which the Government should change the law to recognise, students claimed yesterday.

Ahead of today’s landmark High Court hearing in which a lesbian couple are seeking recognition of their marriage in Canada, the Union of Students in Ireland staged a public celebration proclaiming the human right to marry.

While civil unions of gay and lesbian couples have recently been legislated for in Britain and other countries, USI president Colm Hamrogue said Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands recognise equal marriage rights as a human right for same-sex and opposite-sex couples.