A Northern Ireland council is to demand Stormont permanent secretaries implement a ban on the "torture" of conversion therapy as a "matter of urgency".
The controversial 'treatment' is used as a means of trying to stop or suppress a gay person's sexuality, or stop them from identifying as a different gender to their sex recorded at birth but has been dismissed as 'pseudo-science'.
All members of the DUP abstained in the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMDDC) vote due to concern over "religious freedom".
