Couple celebrate first civil partnership in Ireland

Barry Dignam and Hugh Walsh will make history today as Ireland's first official gay wedding couple - and they couldn't be happier. Dignam and Walsh, together for the past 17 years, will become the public face of civil partnership in Ireland as the first couple not to require an exemption to celebrate a gay marriage. New legislation which came into effect on January 1st allows the pair to be marr...

Irish Central • Apr 6, 2011