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Equality and Non-Discrimination

Ireland
  • English
    1 All citizens shall, as human persons, be held equal before the law.
    This shall not be held to mean that the State shall not in its enactments have due regard to differences of capacity, physical and moral, and of social function.
    … (Art. 40)
  • Irish Gaelic
    1 Áirítear gurb ionann ina bpearsain daonna na saoránaigh uile i láthair an dlí.
    Ach ní intuigthe as sin nach bhféachfaidh an Stát go cuí, ina chuid achtachán, don difríocht atá idir daoine ina mbuanna corpartha agus ina mbuanna morálta agus ina bhfeidhm chomhdhaonnach.
    … (Airteagal 40)