# Ireland is bringing in civil partnership **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 10, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544 "2009-07-10T12:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544/1 "2009-07-10T12:26:33Z")
[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0626/breaking34.htm](http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0626/breaking34.htm) > **[Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010](https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2009/44/)** > > Act to provide for the registration of civil partners and for the consequences of that registration, to provide for the rights and obligations of cohabitants and to provide for connected matters For youse folks who’s are inter-ested (that was meant to sound like a Southern American). ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544/2 "2009-07-10T12:55:48Z")
Down With This Sort Of Thing. ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544/3 "2009-07-10T12:57:43Z")
Careful Now. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544/4 "2009-07-10T12:58:28Z")
Northern Ireland has had those for a while so needless to say, sorry, we can’t hear you over how awesome we are! Either that or the sound of bonfires being constructed, which to some people equals the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544/5 "2009-07-10T13:01:37Z")
> [@Laudenum](#): > > [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0626/breaking34.htm](http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0626/breaking34.htm) > [http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=12249](http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=12249) > > For youse folks who’s are inter-ested (that was meant to sound like a Southern American). My vote is for cheers instead of bonfires. However, in the interests of accuracy, “youse” is more of a New York/New Jersey type of thing. For southern, you want something like, “For y’all up in here who might be interested”. ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544/6 "2009-07-10T13:05:44Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > Northern Ireland has had those for a while so needless to say, sorry, we can’t hear you over how awesome we are! > > Either that or the sound of bonfires being constructed, which to some people equals the same thing. [You still aren’t great with the tourists](http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055612834) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544/7 "2009-07-10T13:43:43Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > For southern, you want something like, “For y’all up in here who might be interested”. “If y’all are interested in such.” 🙂 Up in here? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544/8 "2009-07-10T13:48:33Z")
…well, I tend to hear it a lot around southeastern Ohio, anyway. Never mind me. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544/9 "2009-07-10T13:49:32Z")
If we had those I’d probably be “civilly partnered” instead of married now. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “If y’all are interested in such.” 🙂 > > Up in here? 😕 Columbus, Ohio is the New South. Not really, but I did have to drive by a big Confederate flag every time I drove up that way. Now don’t try to pretend that people from Arkansas sound like people from the real South. I met a woman from Toad Suck once and she had a pretty unique sound to her voice. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-is-bringing-in-civil-partnership/502544/10 "2009-07-10T14:33:27Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Now don’t try to pretend that people from Arkansas sound like people from the real South. I met a woman from Toad Suck once and she had a pretty unique sound to her voice. I believe for the most part the accent is like Charles Tucker on _Star Trek: Enterprise._ There is a distinct drawl near Louisiana, but I’ve never heard the classic tidewater accent from an Arkansan. I, of course, have no accent, having grown up listening to Johnny Carson on TV. :rolleyes: