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Sat 05 May 2007Sing 'Que Sera Sera' if you're not glad to be gayDouble Take: Lord Browne's outing and disgrace could never happen here because we don't have any gay people, writes Ann Marie Hourihane.As we all know, there are no gay chief executives in this country. There are no gay businessmen in this country. There are no gay businesswomen in this country, or in the whole world, the universe or outer space, it would seem - but we'll get to that in a minute. Actually there are no gay people outside Dublin, and for years we didn't have them here. Urban life must turn some Irish people gay in some way - it's probably all that unaccustomed exposure to public transport. There are no gay people in the Dáil, and there are no gay people in the Garda and, strange to say, there are no gay people in either newspaper or broadcasting journalism.