#VoteWithUs Videos that mention human rights as a theme are shown here.
Ashling O’Brien is from Dublin and is an atheist. Her motivations in voting yes are to reduce harm and increase wellbeing. She knows that these are the exact same goals for religious people for society too – and a yes vote, she believes, is the fair, just, right and kind thing to do. “I’m an atheist, and I often have …
Eve Kerton is from Clonmel, South Tipperary. She’s currently the Welfare Officer in DCU and, as she says herself “striving for equality empowers me to do my job to the best of my ability”. For her, seeing the marriage equality referendum passed while she’ still in office will be the biggest highlight of her time in that position. “It pains me to see …
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.”
Cellena is a third level student from Sligo studying in DCU. “I think marriage equality is pivotal for Ireland. Today if you were to fall in love with someone, no matter how much you love them you won’t be able to get married if they’re of the same gender… We need to change this.”
Aoife and Claire are both full time students at Dublin City University, and members of the University Media Production Society. “We believe everybody deserves the right to get married. We want to help make this a possibility. Share the love!”
Andrew Ralph, 19, is a first year student of Journalism in DCU. He is also involved with the DCU branch of Young Fine Gael, and is a sub-editor for the College View. “The people who died in the Easter Rising wanted a country based on equality, fraternity, liberty and democracy. Do you really want to live in a society where people …
Katie Murphy is 31 year old hairdresser from Tramore, Co Waterford. She’s voting yes because she has witnessed the inequality faced by her younger brother Peter because he is gay. As she says herself – this inequality must end and marriage equality is a step towards that. She will have “the great honour of marrying the man I love” this year and she …
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 …
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 …
Sorcha Szczerbiak is originally from the United States, but she moved to Dundalk, Ireland in 2013 to volunteer with her church. Sorcha is a straight ally who believes marriage equality will make Ireland a better, more just place for all its residents. It will send a strong message around the world that Ireland recognises its LGBT citizens, not as people …