Galway Bay fm newsroom - Just 2.5% of marriages across the city and county last year were same sex marriages.
The latest CSO data reveals that 32 same sex marriages took place in across Galway in 2016 - out of a total of over 1,200 marriages.
12 female couples and 20 male couples tied the knot in Galway.
Nationally, the latest stats reveal that same sex marriages account for only 5 per cent of all marriages in this country.
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Just over a thousand same sex couples said "I do" during 2016 - the first full year since the law changed.
