In Dublin, civil ceremonies accounted for some 42 per cent of all marriages in 2006, the highest figure in the State. By contrast, they accounted for just over 10 per cent of marriages in counties ...

Gay rights campaigners have called on the Government to legislate for civil marriage for same-sex couples following today's Irish Times /Behaviour & Attitudes poll which shows a large majority of ...

Civil partnership is different to marriage as it is only available to same-sex couples. However following a landmark ruling at the Supreme Court in June 2018, it could be rolled out to ...

Almost one in three weddings in Ireland are civil marriages. New figures show more than 29pc of the 20,680 couples who got married last year decided not to get hitched in a church.

The number of marriages celebrated last year more than halved compared to 2019. Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures show civil marriage ceremonies were the most popular overall. Just over ...

Some councillors argued that the ceremonies would be civil and therefore not a sacrament. Cllr Devitt said that the availability of civil marriage was central to a balanced society.

Now if you open the door to [equal] civil partnership, all of a sudden you’ll have people saying they are weakening marriage,” he said. “They are stuck between a rock and a hard place.” ...

With the advent of civil marriage equality, this discrimination has been both alleviated and reinforced. Same-sex couples can now marry but opposite-sex couples remain banned from civil partnerships.

The civil marriage debate took center stage in Lebanon last month when, after a year spent navigating uncharted legal territory in private, Kholoud Succariyeh and Nidal Darwish made public their ...

Lebanons civil marriage debate highlights sectarian rule12 February 2013 Kholoud Succariyeh, a Sunni Lebanese woman, and Nidal Darwish, a Shiite Lebanese man, recently decided to get a civil marriage ...