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Having a gay old time while Mayor is away
Labour Party City Councillor Niall McNelis was a busy buachaill last weekend, deputising while the mayor, Frank Fahy, was representing us abroad in America.
And it appears that events with men wearing dresses featured heavily in his schedule.
On Friday, he was at Galway Cathedral, where there was any amount of robed priests at Mass celebrating its 50th anniversary.
And on Saturday, Niall joined the gays and marched in the Galway Gay Pride parade, which was attended by any amount of men in dresses, who were celebrating equality and diversity; and basking in the glow of the marriage equality referendum.
How times have changed: Mass one day, gay pride the next.
Not everyone has embraced the brave new Ireland, however. The floppy-haired Harry-Potter lookalike deputy mayor was guest of honour at the launch of Galway Gay Pride on Thursday.
There were, apparently, more politicians at the launch than you could shake a pink feather boa at. Some estimates say there were more politicians at the launch than gays . . . proof that an election is on the horizon.
Most political views were represented at the event in Monroe’s from the Coalition parties (Fine Gael senator Hildegarde Naughton; Labour TD Derek Nolan and Cllr Billy Cameron ), to the opposition (Sinn Féin senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh and his would-be running mate if they were to run two, Cllr Mairead Farrell).
As well as a couple of Independent candidates (postmasters union candidate Seona O’Fegan from Barna and Niall Ó Tuathail who hasn’t yet officially declared for the Social Democrats) and a couple who haven’t announced they’re running yet (Tommy Roddy, organising committee, and Independent City Councillor Mike Cubbard).
But nobody, apparently, from Fianna Fáil, a party that was blue in the face denying criticism that it wasn’t ‘pulling its weight’ in the referendum in May . . . the dozen or so Galway public representatives from the Soldiers of Destiny were too busy washing their hair, no doubt.
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