A rainbow-tinged red carpet was rolled out for the LGBT activists who passed through Fermoy and Mitchelstown last Sunday.
Both towns were delighted to be part of a regional Pride Parade, which traversed the county last weekend.
It may have been more of a motorised convoy than a parade, but that mattered little to the large number of supporters who were present to show their solidarity with a section of society, who were, for too long, marginalised.
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