Judgment day for gay marriage in Northern Ireland.

Judgment is due later on Thursday in two landmark legal challenges against Northern Ireland’s ban on gay marriage.

Mr Justice O’Hara will rule on two separate cases that were heard together due to the similarities of the arguments.

In the first case, two couples in civil partnerships – Gráinne Close and Shannon Sickles and Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane – argued the region’s prohibition on same sex marriage breached their human rights.