Kenny backs sharia council for Ireland

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is backing the creation of a sharia council in Ireland to grant divorces to Irish Muslims.

The sharia council would only be able to deal with Islamic divorce, and would have no legal standing. So Muslims who were married in civil ceremonies here would still have to go through the Irish courts to get an officially recognised divorce.

Kenny has told representatives of Ireland’s 50,000-strong Muslim community that there is ...