Same-sex test case headlines misleading

I WOULD like to draw your readers’ attention to the headline ‘Gay challenge: married couples could face tax hikes’ and the sub-heading ‘Tax changes could cost exchequer up to €2bn a year’ (Irish Examiner, November 10).

I represent the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Society in UCC and we find this headline grossly misleading and inflammatory.

The number of cohabiting couples who describe themselves as same-sex is less than 2% of all the cohabiting couples in the country.