A MESSAGE FROM AN TAOISEACH I want to wish you all a happy 2022 Cork LGBT+ Pride Festival and to congratulate the organisers and volunteers for organising such an extensive programme this year. I know that not being able to hold full in person physical events was a loss that was keenly felt by the LGBT+ community in 2020 and 2021. Pride has always sought to bring people together. The festival is important for many reasons. Above all, it promotes the dignity and quality of LGBTI+ people, and improves the visibility of the LGBT+ community in Ireland and beyond. This year’s theme is “Proud to be ….” As Taoiseach and as a Government, we continue to work to improve the lives of LGBT+ people through strategies that promote inclusion and target discrimination. Keeping LGBT+ community safe has come in to sharp focus in the last number of months. It is vital that members of minority and vulnerable groups such as LGBTI+ are supported in Ireland so that they can feel safe and “Proud to be ….” As a Government we will soon publish a new Hate Crime Bill, we have also commissioned research which is a fundamental step towards the banning of conversion therapy. I know we have more to do but we have come a long as a country in our journey to achieve full inclusivity and equality. Over the past 17years, Cork Pride has grown in popularity to become one of Ireland’s biggest public events, yet it has never lost that community focus or sense of hope and belonging.
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HUGE THANKS TO: An Taoiseach Micheal Martin; Lord Mayor Cllr Deirdre Forde; all the team at the Gay Project; all the team at LINC; all the team at the Sexual Health Centre; Denise Coleman and all the team An Garda Siochana Anglesea Street; Kieran O Connell, Rebecca Landry, and all the team at Cork City Council; Enda O’Halloran and all the team at Cork County Council; David Brown and all the team at Port of Cork; Karen O Donoghue, Joe Dermody and all team at the Irish Examiner; Dave McCardle, Colm O Sullivan, Stevie Grainger, and all the team at Red FM; Justin Cronin, Kieran Rigby, Shane O’Brien and the team at Coolgrey; Peter O’Toole; Maurice Supple; Anton Cullen;; Daragh Kelly; Mark Kenny; Cathal Deavy, Robbie McKeown, Aoife Dilworth and the team at Tesco; Will Organ, Clodagh Thompson, and the team at PepsiCo; Sarah-Jane Willoughby and the team at Ibec; Niall Donnelly and the team at Gilead; Sé Sweeney-McCabe and the team at Meta; Ozren Čolović, Morgan O’Brien, and the team at Johnson and Johnson; Niamh Ryan and the team at Accenture; Gerald O Riordan, Louise Dorgan and the team at Pfizer; Micheal Barry and the team at Apple; Flaminia Curti and the team at Johnson Controls; Anca Titu and the team at VMware; JP McCarthy and the team at Amazon; Amy O’Shaughnessy the team at Energia; Don Crowley and the team at MTU; Avril Hutch and the team at UCC; John Byrne, Helmie Säll Fuglerud and the team at Salesforce; Paula McDonnell and the team at Qualcomm; Maria Barry and the team at EY; Garrett O Keeffe and Vincent Phelan at Solarwinds; David O Meara and the team at Merck; John Goulding and all the team at Workvivo; Ciaran Austin, Martin Ryan, Eleanor Moore, Triona Healy and the team at HSE, Naoimh Frawley, Bo Browne, and the team at Cork Chamber; Noelle Mulcahy, Anita Casey and the team at Teamwork; Stephen Donovan and the team at Bank of Ireland; Aoife Curtin and the team at Abtran; Dean Constable and the team at Blizzard Entertainment; Mark Brown, Clair Davis, Aoife Kennedy, and all the team at Permanent TSB; Lorna Connor, Colin Ryan, and all the team at Stryker; Mícheál Barry, Sara Bronnenkant and all the team at Apple; Fiona Connolly and the team at Bus Eireann; Marie Ryan and the team at Boston Scientific; Steph Cooke, Ruth Furney and the team at Telus International; Paul Roche, Alan Cronin and the team at Barry Group; Mary White and the team at Altada; Aidan Quigley and the team at Tesla; Benny McCabe, Conor Lyons, Kate O Shea, Saoirse McCabe, Andrew Dunne and the team at Cork Heritage Pubs; Darren Fitzgerald, John O Donovan, and the team at CDS Law; Ernest Cantillon, Emer O Mahony, and all the team at Kinsale Spirit Co; Jarred Arendse and all the team at Logitech; Daragh and the team at Hairy Baby; Sinead McDonald and the team at the River Lee; Bastien Peyraud and the team at the Imperial Hotel; Paul O Connell and the team at the Clayton Cork City; Cork Pride Artist in Residence Stephen Doyle; Cork Pride Master of Ceremonies Paul Ryder; David Gough; Nikki Gallagher; Ailbhe Smyth; Arthur Leahy; Amanullah De Sondy; Saoirse Mackin; The Work with Pride Committee: Damien O Halloran, Mary White, Kery Mullaly, Aoife Dilworth, Ronan Kenny, Lauren Hogan, Don Crowley, Darren Fitzgerald, Evan Murphy Keogh, and Nuttawud Nutchanat. Thank you to all of our loyal sponsors, advertisers, community partners and supporters, both this year and in every year - you have helped build the Cork LGBT+ Pride Festival into what it is today! Huge thanks also to our dedicated Board of Directors, Committee, and our teams of volunteers who generously give of their time and skills to bring you the Cork LGBT+ Pride Festival annually, Cork Pride couldn’t and wouldn’t happen without you!
I wish everyone a Happy Pride 2022.
Micheál Martin An Taoiseach
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