The traditional family and a loving, safe environment are not the same

THE sky cracked over Leinster House last week.

Peals of thunder, and long and insistent flashes of forked lightning, punctuated the opening of the session. Nothing like this had ever been seen. Surely, the heavens would fall in.

Inside, the Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald, struggled to be heard over a clamour of opposition, which seemed as if it might boil over. Cries of “demon” and “traitor” were heard.