Irish Examiner view: Pride needs to start early in our schools

New relationship and sexuality education guidelines have never been more needed

 Aoife Foster, age 15 from Tallaght, one of the Foróige members who attended the Shine With Pride mural in collaboration with SUBSET. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall

The photographs from the unveiling of the ‘Shine with Pride’ mural on Camden Row in Dublin were colourful and celebratory. That is just how it should be as LGBTI+ young people from across Ireland engaged in a collaboration between artist collective Subset and Foróige to share their lived experiences of growing up in Ireland.

Foróige chief executive Seán Campbell said the mural, which marks Pride month, was a striking and powerful artwork showing the progress we, as a nation, have made in supporting LGBTI+ young people.