President: Homophobia 'an appalling blight on society'
24/03/2012 - 15:05:05President Michael D Higgins has today condemned what he describes as "the appalling, destructive reality of homophobia".
The President made his remarks today at a conference in Dublin run by the country's biggest youth organisation Foróige.
"The idea that any young person could be driven, not just to lower self-esteem, exclusion, isolation, loneliness, but self-destruction itself, is an appalling blight on a society," said President Higgins.