#VoteWithUs Videos that feature people from, or with strong connections to, Leinster.
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 …
Eimear is 24 and from Meath. As a straight women, in her video she challenges the idea that she won’t personally benefit from a yes vote. She also makes a direct plea to voters – in the spirit of the #VoteWithUs campaign – asking them to choose just one person before Friday to talk to about why they are voting yes. “The …
Dave Byrne is from Bray, Co. Wicklow. In his video he shares his views on why the upcoming referendum on Equal Marriage is so important, and why he thinks it’s about our past as much as our future. He eloquently explains how a Yes vote on May 22nd will not just ensure a brighter future, it will also allow us …
In the closing days of the referendum campaign, Brighid and Paddy from Louth have made a second video appealing to the hundreds of thousands of viewers of their original contribution to make sure to get out and vote on May 22nd. The Catholic couple, who are married 50 years, want everyone to make a special effort to turn out on …
Eibhlís (Liz) and her partner of 32 years, Pat Connery, are musicians and music teachers living in Greystones, Co Wicklow. They will both be voting yes on May 22nd. Eibhlís reads a short poem she wrote describing how it feels to ask for a yes vote -to ask for equality – on the doorstep, while canvassing. “For me, it’s about …
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 …
Breda and Gerry Kinahan are from Dromiskin in Co Louth. They will be voting yes in the equal marriage referendum, not just so that their son can have the same civil rights as the rest of their children, but because they are proud of Ireland’s great tradition of fighting for civil rights both here and abroad. “As Irish people I’ve …
Brian Stanley is a TD for Laois-Offaly and is the Sinn Fein spokesperson on the Environment. He believes that it is appropriate that the right to civil marriage should be extended by the state to all couples that want to avail of it. ‘We have to recognise that the Proclamation of 1916, read by Padraig Pearse on the steps of …
Peter and Emma are a young couple living in Dublin who got married on Sunday May 3rd in Carlingford. They took time out on their big day to tell their friends, families, and everyone else why they feel it is important that everyone should have the opportunity to have their relationships recognised and protected, and to be as happy as …
Richie Nolan, originally from Kildare, moved to San Francisco in October of last year. He shares his thoughts on living in a state that allows same sex marriage and his hopes for Ireland to follow suit. Richie is travelling back to Ireland to vote yes on May 22nd, and hopes that you’ll vote with him. “What I’d like to see …