Same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland but not in Northern Ireland. Legislation to allow for the recognition of same-sex marriages in Northern Ireland has been debated in the Northern Ireland Assembly five times since 2012. On the first four of those occasions, only a minority of assembly members voted in favour of same-sex marriage, though the most recent vote on the issue in November 2015 saw a majority of MLAs vote in favour of same-sex marriage. On 1 October 2012, the first Northern Ireland Assembly motion regarding same-sex marriage was introduced by Sinn Féin and the Greens. The motion was defeated 50-45. On 29 April 2013,
Christopher Beaumont, 23rd Seigneur of Sark Christopher Beaumont, 23rd Seigneur of Sark Christopher Beaumont is the present Seigneur of Sark in the Channel Islands and a major. He succeeded as Seigneur on 3 July 2016, when his father Michael Beaumont died. On 5 July 2016 the "Sark Newspaper" published an article that listed reasons Sark residents should have doubts about what the Seigneury of the 23rd Seigneur held in store for them. The "Sark Newspaper" reported Sark residents could not know whether Beaumont would re-occupy the Seigneurie, the traditional residence of the Seigneur, even though it is a matter of public record that the elderly former