Unlike the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland hasn’t passed same-sex marriage into law. Today for the third time the devolved Stormont assembly will debate bringing the law there into line with the rest of the UK.
It seems unlikely to pass, not least due to blocking moves by the DUP.
The previous two debates were October 2012, when the motion was rejected by 49 votes to 45, last April when the proposal fell by 53 votes to 42.
