Instead, Ireland saw smaller groups calling for rights for gay people, including the abolition of the controversial Victorian law which criminalised homosexual acts. The Pride events began in Dublin more than a decade after the gay pride movement originally began as a result of the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969. The protest, which is believed to have been an anti-property tax and anti-government protest, lasted around ten minutes. However the parade was disrupted on O’Connell Street shortly after it began this afternoon when a small number of protesters stood in front of a Labour bus which was taking part in the parade and stopped it from going any further.
The parade began at the Gardens of Remembrance on Parnell Square and wound its way to Merrion Square.
