Labour urges Taoiseach to apologise on behalf of State to gays convicted of homosexuality in past

Labour has called on Taoiseach Enda Kenny to apologise on behalf of the State to gay and lesbian people who were jailed and criminalised in Ireland under "chilling" laws before 1993.

Fiachra Ó Cionnaith of the Irish Examiner writes that senators Ged Nash and Ivana Bacik made the request today as they launched an opposition bill seeking the move in order to "address the historic wrong by the State".