Today, during Pride month, I addressed the Dáil as a gay man.
I spoke about Declan Flynn, murdered forty three years ago, and about Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee, murdered in Sligo in 2022. Hatred toward this community is not history. It is present tense.
I also said what many gay, lesbian, and bisexual people say privately and are afraid to say publicly. This movement has been hijacked. It no longer speaks for the people who built it.
I was direct about flags too. The Tricolour belongs on every State building, 365 days a year. Men and women died for that flag. It deserves better than to be called a source of terror inside the very building it flies over.
Lesbians, gays, and bisexuals are citizens of this Republic. Not props for somebody else's politics.