#VoteWithUs Videos that mention fairness as a theme are shown here.
Ciaran shares his personal experience of growing up gay in an honest and forthright manner. His earnest wish is for people to bear in mind the trauma that LGBT youth have suffered in their lives and how a yes vote will go a long way to alleviating that disadvantage.
Anthony and Barry are a couple who have been in a civil partnership for eight years. They make a strong and passionate case for a YES vote on Friday and for how monumentally significant the change would be to their family. “A yes vote will improve our lives in so many ways. It won’t impact on anyone else – if …
Jonathan is a 25 year old accountant from Cork. He has been openly gay for nine years, and in this video he makes an emotional and honest plea for voters to focus on the similarities between us, not the differences. “In my 25 years I’ve been in love, have been loved; I’ve broken hearts and been heartbroken. But right now, on …
John and Davy Quinlivan are brothers who are both gay. They wanted to make a video to share with everyone the reasons why they are voting yes in the marriage equality referendum. John is in a Civil Partnership with his partner after spending over 10 years together. Davy hopes one day to be able to marry the man he loves – equality is all …
Leo Varadkar is the Minister for Health and has been a TD since 2007. For him, a yes vote is a choice toward liberty, toward equality for all. He rightly points out the harsh discriminations that existed in Ireland in the past which we find unacceptable today; and the truth about how marriage as an institution has evolved. He also tackles …
David works in Oxford as an academic, and is from Skerries in Dublin. He believes that Ireland has made huge strides in equality in the previous decade, and that we now have a chance to achieve something truly historic. In his video, he addresses some of these myths, and presents the reality that voter turn out matters hugely if we …
Jay & Aaron are two Irish guys living in Canada. They can’t vote as a result, but the have a message for everyone back home: please vote yes on their behalf. “We don’t want to settle for second best, we don’t want civil partnerships: we want marriage!”
Susie Faulkner is a 32 year old primary school teacher from Carlow. Her four sisters and she decided to make this video to tell their main reasons for voting yes. They’ve never seen any differences between the five of them but the fact remains that Susie cannot get married like her other sisters. “I’m voting yes because I’ve never felt any different to my …
Mark is a 23 year old student from Dundrum in Dublin. He is motivated to vote YES on behalf of his friend and asks others to join him in supporting the equal rights of LGBT people in Ireland. “I always would have been a supporter of equal marriage but I never really thought about why. After my friend came out, …
Ella is 23, from south county Dublin, and recently graduated from Trinity College where she made her video alongside some friends. She’s standing up for equality by voting YES and asks others to take action with her to help create the better Ireland we want to see. “I’m voting yes because it’s time in Ireland that we had a change. …