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Francis Timmons is an Independent Councillor for Clondalkin on South Dublin County Council. For Francis, 2015 is the year to be proud and live with pride; and the year to fight for equality and against homophobia. “I don’t feel the need to thank people for giving the LGBT community human rights – they’ve earned their rights as human brings, and …
Joan Burton is the Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister), Minister for Social Protection, and first female Leader of the Labour Party. Joan continues to represent the Dublin West Constituency, having been first elected in 1991 as a Dublin County Councillor for the Mulhuddart Local Electoral Area. In her video, Joan recounts a moving encounter she had with a mother who wants …
Ciara Conway is the Labour TD for Waterford and is the Vice Chairperson of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, Children and Youth Affairs and a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform. She is the first ever female T.D. to represent Waterford for the Labour Party. “As a mother, as a big sister, as a …
Deirdre Kingston is a Labour councillor representing the Blackrock Ward on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. “The sky isn’t going to fall in on May 22nd. Marriages aren’t going to be undermined, future marriages won’t be threatened. All that is going to happen is that we are going to share our freedom to marry with every citizen in the State.”
Deputy Eric Byrne has been a public representative since 1985, when he was first elected to Dublin City Council. He has represented Dublin South Central in Dáil Éireann since 2011. “Many of us have personal friends who are gay, lesbian, transgender. It’s my belief that they should have the same rights as those of us who are heterosexual.”
Dominic Hannigan is the Labour Party Deputy for Meath East. He has represented Meath since 2004 when he was elected as a councillor in the Local Elections that year. “This gives us a great opportunity to demonstrate that, when we say we’re an equal and tolerant society, we mean just that. It’s almost 100 years since the proclamation outside the …
Michael McCarthy is a Labour TD representing Cork South-West in the Dáil, and is chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht. He was a Labour representative to the Constitutional Convention in July 2012. “Until Ireland has equal marriage, we’re going to have an unequal society. That’s why I hope you’ll vote with me for …
Labour TD for Wicklow Anne Ferris and her husband John Nolan are newlyweds……married just six months. They got married because they love one another and wanted to share their commitment with the world. Anne and John believe that everyone should get this chance and that is why they are voting for marriage equality. “We got married because we wanted to …
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 …
Dessie Ellis, Sinn Féin TD from Dublin North West, shares his short plea for voters to support equality for a better society for us all. “We as a society will be richer in supporting the rights of gay and lesbian couples to marry”