Same-sex marriage is now legal in Northern Ireland; what does it mean?
5 min readJan 19, 2020
Same-sex marriage is now legal in Northern Ireland, bringing the region in line with both the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Stormont, the seat of Northern Ireland’s legislative power, did not follow England, Scotland and Wales after parliament in Westminster voted by a huge majority to legalise same-sex marriage in 2013.