Irish same-sex couple become the first to be legally recognised as parents on their children’s birth certificates

LGBTQ+ history has been made.

According to a report from RTÉ news, two LGBTQ+ women have become the first same-sex couple in Ireland to be legally recognised as parents on their twins birth certificates.

This joyous news comes nearly a year after the Child and Family Relationships Act came into effect. 

Under the legislation, same-sex female couples who conceive a child through a fertility clinic are both legally allowed to be named as parents on the child’s birth certificate. 

New parents Niamh O’Sullivan and Geraldine Rea expressed their excitement about law to RTÉ news. 

“It’s amazing. Finally, it’s a bit of equality. Why should we have to go to court to state that I am there if she was their birth mother?” Niamh stated. 

“Why would I have to go to court? It’s just easier that I don’t now have to go to court and prove myself to be their other parent.” 

Before the 2015 legislation passed, female same-sex couples were required to go through a court process to re-register the birth of their child.

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