Norris: Sex comment 'sabotaged my campaign'

The man tipped to be Ireland’s first openly gay president said his campaign has been sabotaged by the re-emergence of decade-old remarks about the age of consent and incest.

Norris: Sex comment 'sabotaged my campaign'

The man tipped to be Ireland’s first openly gay president said his campaign has been sabotaged by the re-emergence of decade-old remarks about the age of consent and incest.

David Norris, a well-known senator and equality campaigner, accepted his hopes of being one of the world’s first openly homosexual heads of state have been badly damaged by the scandal.

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