Irish Examiner View: Public can help shape law on disregarding gay convictions

The public are being asked to participate in a consultation on proposals to disregard historic criminal convictions for consensual sexual activity between gay and bisexual men. 

The pride flag pictured in St Patrick's Street at the Cork Pride 2016 parade. Picture: John Allen

Keen-eyed readers looking at page four of the Irish Examiner yesterday will have noticed an advertisement from Ireland’s Department of Justice. 

Within its restrained typography and sober wording is an invitation to help redress a wrong which is correctly, and some would say belatedly, recognised as “an affront to human dignity and a significant historic injustice”.