Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Lift ban on gay blood donors
He also said a proposed compromise, whereby gay and bisexual men would be allowed to give blood only if they had abstained from sex with men for a year, would be seen as “offensive”.
Health Minister Leo Varadkar is poised to make a decision on the ban — which was imposed at the height of the HIV/Aids panic in the mid-1980s — when a report is delivered in the next few months from the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS).
