#VoteWithUs Videos that feature people from, or with strong connections to, Dublin.
Actor Aidan Gillen joins the #VoteWithUs campaign and gives his reasons for supporting equal marriage in the referendum on May 22nd. Aidan speaks about the enormous benefit to young people in Ireland of a strong yes vote and reminds us that the major child protection organisations and children’s charities have come out in favour of yes too. “Another thing to …
Sabina Brennan is a psychologist and parent, one of whose sons is gay. Sabina hopes that we pass the equal marriage referendem on 22 May, and will be so proud to live in an Ireland that votes yes. “I have two sons, I love them both equally. They’re both Irish citizens. One of them can marry and one of them …
Sadhbh Berridge is a young mother from Dublin. She believes this issue is a fundamental human right – every couple in love should have the right to get married. And she absolutely wants her own children to grow up in a country that allows that. It’s really as simple as that for Sadhbh. “I will be voting yes on May …
Bru Amerlynck (33), James McIlvenna (33), Jamie Taylor (34), Mark Amerlynk (26) and Conor Cassidy (33) are all from the Sutton/Howth area in Dublin and are all rugby team-mates at Suttonians RFC whose friendships go back years. Each of them is voting yes for equal marriage in May. On the pitch they are all treated equally, but as one of them …
Gary is 30, works in film distribution, and has lived in Dublin, Galway and Vancouver. He believes that the decisions we make in votes like this have a powerful effect on how people feel about themselves and the world they live in. “There are thousands of young gay people around Ireland…who have a lot of negative voices in their lives, …
Neil is a 30 year old Irishman living in London and working there as a journalist. He has watched a lot of videos that talk about great reasons to vote yes, but he thinks his is fairly straight forward: gay people are good people who deserve to be treated equally. And so he’s proud to fly home in May to …
Margaret and Róisín live in Dublin where they are busily working as teachers and looking after their three small children. They helped set up the initiative LGBTwithkids.com, which promotes the visibility of LGBT parented families in the run up to the referendum. “The prospect of marriage equality being voted into law by my fellow citizens is like the thought of …
Nadine is a mother and a lesbian living in Dublin. She has been campaigning for Marriage Equality for many years and knows all too well that Civil Partnerships are not equal to Marriage. She wants this vote to pass to hand the dream of marriage back to LGBT people. “[When civil partnerships were drafted] people sat around a table and went …
Diarmuid Fitzgerald is from Dublin. In his video, he discusses what equal marriage would mean to him personally and to his family, and he touches on the effect that a yes vote would have in tackling the homophobia that is still commonplace in Ireland. “Three years ago my brother asked me to best man at his wedding. I would like him to do …
Jamie Kenny is young gay man from Clondalkin, Dublin. He is currently a third level student at NUI Maynooth. “I am voting yes because I wish to feel that I am just as valued in society as my heterosexual peers, and that my relationships are just as valid as anyone else’s. I want to live in a better Ireland, one …