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Ireland’s first openly gay leader, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, made a comment at Belfast’s gay pride event on Saturday 6 August, stating that it is “only a matter of time” before gay marriage is legalised in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland currently remains as the only place within the British Isles when gay marriage is still prohibited.
A vote back in 2015 legalised gay marriage within the republic of Ireland.
The ban has been one significant issue that has prevented the restoration of the Catholic-Protestant government within Northern Ireland.
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The Democratic Unionists, Northern Ireland’s biggest British Protestant party and key partner to British Prime Minister, Theresa May’s government, has resisted same-sex marriage.
The Catholic nationalist Sinn Fein supports it.
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