North’s rights chief is gay advocate
Prof Michael O’Flaherty is a 52-year-old native of Galway city, a former priest, senior United Nation human rights expert and leading gay rights advocate who has just taken over as the North’s human rights commissioner from Prof Monica McWilliams.
Prof O’Flaherty said the principles were about “reminding people that just because they are gay, that does not give you licence to torture them or execute them; just because people are gay it does not give you a right to intrude into their bedrooms”, Irish Times reports.
