A MESSAGE FROM AN TAOISEACH I I want to wish you all a happy 2021 Cork LGBT+ Pride Festival and to congratulate the organisers and volunteers for such an innovative approach to this year’s celebrations. This year’s theme is ‘Together Apart’ and the festival’s mix of both online and physical events promise to be unique, collaborative, inclusive, yet mindful of the ongoing need to stay safe as we emerge from the pandemic.
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Together Apart is an excellent theme, reflecting the unprecedented challenges, of the past year.
Pride has always sought to bring people together, embracing diversity and inclusivity.
Many of us couldn’t be together with our friends and loved ones for long periods, yet as a community, and as a nation, we showed unity of purpose to overcome those challenges. Over the past 16 years, Cork Pride has grown in popularity to become one of Ireland’s biggest public events, yet has never lost that community focus or sense of hope. This year’s Grand Marshal Aoife Cooke, will carry that sense of hope when she represents Ireland in the marathon at the Tokyo Olympics – and I wish her every success.
An Taoiseach Micheal Martin; Lord Mayor Cllr Colm Kelleher; Cork Pride Parade Grand Marshal Aoife Cooke; Cork Pride Master of Ceremonies Paul Ryder; all the team at the Gay Project; all the team at LINC; all the team at the Sexual Health Centre; An Garda Siochana Anglesea Street; Cork City Council; Cork County Council; Sara MacKeown, Nicholas Bourke, and all the team at Port of Cork; Karen O Donoghue, Joe Dermody, Lisa Coughlan and all the team at the Irish Examiner; Dave McCardle, Colm O Sullivan, Stevie Grainger, and all the team at Red FM; Justin Cronin, Kieran Rigby and the team at Coolgrey; all the team at the Marina Market; Peter O Toole; Sophie Ridley; Maurice Supple; Anton Cullen; Rose-Anne Kidney; Daragh Kelly; Rory Collins; Helena O Brien; Mark Kenny; Cathal Deavy, Robbie McKeown, Aoife Dilworth and the team at Tesco; Evan Murphy, Anna Nolan and the team at PepsiCo; Sarah-Jane Willoughby and the team at Ibec; Niall Donnelly and the team at Gilead; Danielle Bouchier, Katie Martin, and the team at An Post; Gerald O Riordan, Lisa O Callaghan, Louise Dorgan, and the team at Pfizer; Micheal Barry and the team at Apple; Gillian Barry and the team at Laya Healthcare; Mary White, Audrey Walsh, and the team at Johnson Controls; Claire O Regan, Ciara McAdam-O’Connell and the team at VMware; Vicki Crean, Caoimhe Scolard, and the teamat AIB; Peter Lynch, Niamh Ryan and the teamat Accenture; JPMcCarthy and the teamat Amazon; Amy O’Shaughnessy, Stephanie Curry, and the team at Energia; Don Crowley and the team at MTU; John Byrne, Louise Hynes and the team at Salesforce; Fergal Fitzgerald, Oonagh Dalton, and the ESB EFG Fund; Jenny Kenrick and the team at Qualcomm; Maria Barry, Kieran Birrane, Stephen Barry and the team at EY; Fionnuala Walsh at Solarwinds; Padraig Hughes, Ailish Murphy, Erin Lavigne, and the team at Facebook; Eleanor Moore and the team at HSE, Naoimh Frawley, Bo Browne, and the team at Cork Chamber; Shane Prendergast and the team at Cloudera; Anita Casey and the team at Teamwork; Francis Coll and the team at Bank of Ireland; Daniel Morris, Daniel Varian, and the team at Abtran; Dean Constable and the team at Blizzard Entertainment; Fiona Connolly and the team at Bus Eireann; Orla Lee and the team at Boston Scientific; Ruth Furney and the team at Telus International, Daragh and the team at Hairy Baby; Nathan Adams and the team at Sweet King; Sinead McDonald and the team at the River Lee; Colette Walsh and the team at The Dean; Paul O Connell and the team at the Clayton Cork City; Evan Murphy Keogh and all at Frontrunners Cork; Peter Roberts and all at Sporting Pride Ireland; Paula McCarthy and the team at St. Johns College; Fiona Kearney, Tadhg Crowley, and the team at the Glucksman, Stephen Doyle; Alan Amsby; Anna Nolan. Magazine Sub-Editors: Ailsa Spindler, Konrad Im, Paul Ryder, Orla Egan, Phil Corcoran, Pádraig Rice, Stephen Doyle & Rachel Hurley.
Like all of you, I sincerely hope that we will be in a position to celebrate Pride 2022 more together than apart.
In the meantime I wish everyone a Happy Pride 2021.
Micheál Martin An Taoiseach
Proofing: John Buttimer, Don Crowley, Konrad Im, Carmel Im, Catherine Kennedy, Ciara Mulcahy, Kery Mullaly, Ailsa Spindler.
Work with Pride Diversity and Inclusion Conference Sub-Committee: Damien O Halloran, Sarah O Donnell, Kery Mullaly, Ronan Kenny, & Don Crowley.
Community Events Sub-Committee: Konrad Im, Ailsa Spindler, Ciara Mulcahy, Aaron Nation & Robyn Penkert.
Thank you to all of our loyal sponsors, advertisers, community partners and supporters, both this year and in previous years - you have helped build Cork Pride into what it is today - huge thanks also to our dedicated Board of Directors, Committee, and our army of volunteers who generously give of their time and skills to bring you the Cork LGBT+ Pride Festival annually.
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