Pressure for same-sex marriage poll

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will come under pressure to announce a referendum on same-sex marriage after the constitutional convention voted overwhelmingly in favour of the move.

Their decision was welcomed by the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore who said the current laws — stating that marriage is between a man and a woman — “reflect the past and not the future”.

The Labour leader said: “It’s not the role of the State to pass judgment on who a person falls in love with, or who they want to spend their life with.”