#VoteWithUs Videos that feature people from, or with strong connections to, Dublin.
Conor Walsh is from Coolock in Dublin. He is a third level student at Dublin City University. “In the past twenty years Ireland has taken huge steps in accepting gay and trans people into our lives. I think it’s time [now] that we take that big leap into the future, the only way we can do that is by voting yes.”
Benji Foley is a 19 year old queer transgender student in DCU. Benji is asking people to vote yes to give people like him the freedom to love and live out their lives as they truly are without being forced to choose between love and identity. He is asking people to vote yes so that he can live his life …
Heather Rainey is a second year Communications Studies student in DCU. “What’s the difference between two guys getting married, two girls getting married, or a guy and a girl getting married? It makes no difference and how is anyone’s life worse because of it?”
Jack O’Flaherty is a third level student in Dublin City University and a member of the DCU Media Production Society. ‘I’m voting yes because equality is simple: vote yes.’
Jean Philippe is a lecturer at DCU’s School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies. Though he is a French citizen and cannot vote in the referendum, he strongly supports equal marriage and has two daughters, one of whom is over 18 and will be voting yes. he wants people to join his daughter, and other yes voters, in creating a …
Jenny Smith is a third level student at Dublin City University. “There are a lot of countries that allow equal marriage. I think it’s wrong that Ireland doesn’t.”
Seán Walsh is a third level student at Dublin City University. “I believe in love, and I believe that love is for everybody. I want everyone to be treated equal.”
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin is a Labour TD and Minister for Equality, New Communities and Culture. He draws on the 1916 proclamation’s promises to Irish citizens about equality, and sees this coming vote as an opportunity to further vindicate that right. “I’m voting for marriage equality because I think we should live up to the Proclamation of the Republic, which guarantees …
Richard lives with his girlfriend, who is expecting their second child. He tells us that he’s been “gunning for equality for years” and has been at Pride and the March for Marriage almost every year for the last 6, because “it sucks that my friends don’t have the same privileges as I do for such an arbitrary reason as who …
Tara is an actor and comedian, co-writer/ performer of the Marriage Equality PSA “Armagayddon” and firm believer in equality for all. For her it’s a matter of human rights, and she and her husband ask you to vote yes so that other couples can share the right to marry that they have. “One of the reasons why this matters so …