Cork same-sex couple first to be legally recognised as co-parents of children from birth

Niamh O'Sullivan and Geraldine Rea with their twin girls Réidín and Aoibhín. Picture: Gerard McCarthy 

A same-sex couple in Cork has become the first in Ireland to be legally recognised as co-parents of their children from birth.

Niamh O’Sullivan and Geraldine Rea, who live in Bishopstown, are the first same-sex couple in the country to have both their names registered on the official birth certificates of their twin baby girls, Réidín and Aoibhín.