Participants and spectators gather before the start of the Belfast's Gay Pride festival in Belfast July 31, 2010. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will hold a referendum on same sex marriage in 2015, just over two decades after the once stridently Catholic country legalised homosexuality, the government said on Tuesday.
The once dominant role of Catholicism has started to fade after revelations of rape and beatings by members of religious orders and the priesthood and Prime Minister Enda Kenny has even delivered a once-unthinkable rebuke to the Vatican over its handling of the scandals.
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