A marriage-counselling agency run by Ireland’s Catholic Bishops has caved in to government demands to offer help to same-sex couples.
The agency, named Accord, agreed not to turn away same-sex couples in order to continue receiving government funding.
Tusla, the government agency that funds family counselling services, will provide Accord with €408,000 for its services in Dublin and a further €1,184,500 for its courses nationwide.
A Tusla spokeswoman told the Times that its funding agreement for 2018 clearly states that government-funded bodies must be “accessible to everyone”.
