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# norris v ireland

This year
2023
State feared decriminalising same-sex behaviour would lead to ‘public displays of homosexual affection’
Newly released records from the 1970s and 80s show homophobic attitudes within the civil service.
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Aug 30th 2023, 7:00 AM
Lawyers for State wanted to use AIDS crisis to defend Ireland's ban on same-sex relationships
A report by
Lauren Boland
Decades-old files show the lengths the State went to in order to try to preserve its criminal ban on homosexuality in the 1980s.
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Aug 20th 2023, 12:05 AM
All time
Government considered using 'AIDS argument' in David Norris gay rights case
In battling David Norris’ claims that Irish homosexuality laws were in breach of his human rights, the government was considering all kinds of defences.
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Dec 30th 2016, 6:45 AM