One week before I volunteered with BeLonG To, the national organisation supporting LGBTQ+ young people, a teenage boy was brutally and cruelly attacked in Navan, Co Meath.
A video of the crime was sent far and wide, sending shockwaves not just into the LGBTQ+ community, but to all communities across the country.
Questions have been asked as to how a vicious and stomach churning incident could have occurred nearly exactly eight years to the date when marriage equality was legalised by popular vote here in Ireland. The first country in the world to do so.
