#VoteWithUs Videos that mention fairness as a theme are shown here.
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 …
Fiona is 25 and lives in London. She will be travelling home to vote for marriage equality in May. It’s a very personal issue for Fiona and her family but it’s also an issue that affects Irish society as a whole. She doesn’t believe “same but different” legislation is good enough for our LGBT brothers, sisters, children or friends. Equality means …
Marcus is a young Irish person currently working in Prague in the Czech Republic. On May 22, he will fly home to Ireland to vote YES in the referendum. In this video he talks about what it means when we say “we are proud to be Irish”. “I ask you to vote yes so that I can hold my head up …
Sinéad Burke is currently undertaking a PhD in the field of Education and is a primary school teacher from Co. Meath. Sinéad is 3 foot 5 inches tall, which means that she has lived her life in a minority. She notes that in school and college, ‘I was the only one like me’. “Because of my height, I’ve spent my …
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 …
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 …
Linda Kelly, from Ballyvolane in Cork, is an Organiser with IMPACT Trade Union and took part in their video day. “I’m voting yes on the 22nd of May, and I’m going to be driving three hours to get to the ballot box and to have my vote counted! So make sure that where ever you are, whatever you’re doing, that …
Úna Faulkner, from Dublin, is an Organiser with IMPACT Trade Union and took part in their video day. “I think that in 2015, everyone should have the same rights to marriage, the same rights to say ‘This is my husband‘, ‘This is my wife‘, regardless of whether they’re male or female. I think that’s very important for Ireland and I’m …
Shane Lambert, from Dublin, is Chair of IMPACT Trade Union’s Youth Committee and took part in their video day. “I think in a society like Ireland where we pride ourselves on… allowing people to be equal and treating people as we want to be treated, really we need to get out and vote for a strong yes vote.”
Joe O’Connor, from Kilmore in Co. Roscommon, is an Organiser with IMPACT Trade Union and took part in their video day. “Passing this referendum isn’t, as some people would make it out to be, some kind of a leap into the dark. It would be a majestic jump towards fairness, equality ad equal rights for young people and LGBTQ citizens …