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Benji Foley is a 19 year old queer transgender student in DCU. Benji is asking people to vote yes to give people like him the freedom to love and live out their lives as they truly are without being forced to choose between love and identity. He is asking people to vote yes so that he can live his life …
Heather Rainey is a second year Communications Studies student in DCU. “What’s the difference between two guys getting married, two girls getting married, or a guy and a girl getting married? It makes no difference and how is anyone’s life worse because of it?”
William Halpin is a musician, and was formerly Head of the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. He’s voting yes for two simple reasons, and looks forward to Ireland moving toward a new era of tolerance and equality. “Firstly, I believe everybody should have the same rights, and marriage equality allows for this regardless of a person’s sexuality. Secondly, I …
Dónal Mulligan, originally from Leitrim, is a co-founder of the VoteWithUs campaign. He talks about the many thousands of positive differences that a yes vote in Ireland’s equal marriage referendum will make in people’s lives. He believes that this vote is about equality for Irish citizens but that the change will mean much much more. “We started this campaign because …
Ed Davitt is a 34 year old Irish man living in Brussels. He can’t vote in May, but as a gay man he’d like to be able to come home someday to settle down with a family. “I’m looking forward to moving home eventually. I’d like to set up a family and hopefully one day get married.”
Joan Collins is from Dublin and is an Independent TD for Dublin South Central. She knows that most people know someone who is gay, and believes that all of us should take action to allow our friends, family members, and neighbours have the opportunity to marry their partners. “Many of us family members, relations, friends who are in loving relationships. …
Pádraig MacLochlainn is a Sinn Féin TD from Donegal North West. He relates the story of how he and his wife travelled to the wedding of dear gay friends in Spain. He was taken by the genuine and strong love on display, and saddened at how this love is not protected in Ireland. That’s why he’s voting yes. “Our loved …
Adrianne Wyse (31), from Co Dublin, believes strongly in an Ireland of equals. She wants to see a future in which all children can look forward to celebrating their wedding vows, regardless of their sexuality. “I want every little girl to grow up dreaming about her wedding day and I don’t want that to change because of her orientation. Telling people …
Rory Geraghty (27), from Knocklyon in Co. Dublin, is proud to have been raised in Ireland and sees that Ireland can be an even better place to live. Rory points out that everyone knows someone who is gay – and this vote is a chance to stand with them. “I’m very proud to have grown up in Ireland because it’s …
Sonia Harris, who lives and works in Dublin, thinks that marriage is about finding the person you love and committing to them – and that the same right to do this should extend to loving same-sex couples. ‘I hope all of my friends eventually get to meet the people that they love, and get to commit to them by marrying …