Gay betting from Paddy Power

Crazy, really, but Paddy Power are now offering odds on same sex marriage being made legal in Ireland. What seemed to spark the flurry of odds from the Irish bookie was Boyzone's new video in which Stephen Gately is seen in a steamy clinch with a male model. That seems to have sparked more debate amongst punters over just when 'Civil Unions' or same sex marriage will be passed in Ireland.

They're also offering a bet 10 get 20 free bet.

Paddy Power are offering just 10/11 that the first Civil Union will take place in Ireland next year, while it's now 4/1 that same-sex marriage will be recognised in Ireland in the next 6 years (before 2015).

The move from Ireland's top bookie comes just one day after Cardinal Sean Brady controversially suggested Ireland should ban same-sex marriages, like California.

Currently the Republic of Ireland does not recognise civil unions or same sex marriages but a bill for Registered Civil Partnerships is underway, after Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern set the wheels in motion earlier this year.

The bookie is also betting on which high profile Irish gay celebrity will say it loud and proud and get hitched first when the Act is eventually passed. Westlife's Mark Feehily is their 3/1 favourite followed by a few other high profile names such as Big Brother's Brian Dowling at 6/1 and singer Brian Kennedy at 12/1.

Sharon McHugh, spokesperson for Paddy Power said: "Boyzone have made history by being the first boy band to feature a homosexual couple in a video and if the odds are anything to go by it might not be long before the ban on gay marriage is made history too!"

When will the first official state registered 'Civil Union' take place in Ireland?

10/11    2009

  11/8    2010

    4/1    2011 or later

Will a referendum take place on same-sex marriage before 2015?   

    1/4    No

    5/2    Yes

Same Sex Marriage   

   4/1     Same Sex Marriage to be legalised in Ireland before 2015

1st 'Gay Union' in Ireland will be between?

8/11      Two Women

 Evs      Two Men

12/1      Two Transgender

First Irish gay celebrity to get hitched

  3/1      Mark Feehily

  6/1      Brian Dowling

  6/1      Declan Buckley

  8/1      Anna Nolan

  8/1      Brendan Courtney

10/1      Graham Norton

12/1      Brian Kennedy

published: 14th November 2008 by Free Bet Bookmaker

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