#VoteWithUs Videos that mention youth or young people as a theme are shown here.
Jonathan is a 25 year old accountant from Cork. He has been openly gay for nine years, and in this video he makes an emotional and honest plea for voters to focus on the similarities between us, not the differences. “In my 25 years I’ve been in love, have been loved; I’ve broken hearts and been heartbroken. But right now, on …
Neil Patrick Collins is from Castlerea, and a member of the senior Roscommon GAA football team. For Neil, this referendum is about creating a positive environment for everyone to grow up in. “I know people who have left Ireland because they didn’t feel comfortable to be themselves, to be gay, in Irish society. That is something, fortunately, that we can …
Ciarán is voting yes to marriage equality, because he grew up in an Ireland where marriage was only something that happened between a man and a woman. This led him to believe my whole life that marriage was not for him. He tells us that he’s since come to realise that the definition of marriage can be changed with this …
Eimhin is a 27 year old historian living and working in Dublin. He’s been on the receiving end of homophobia and dreams of an Ireland where no child grows up fearful of expressing their true identity. “We can do nothing about the past, but we can create a future where all children have an opportunity o be happy in themselves. …
I dlíodóir í, Emer, as Sórd i gContae Átha Cliath, agus tá sí ina ball den ghrúpa Tá Comhionannas – pobal na Gaeilge do YesEquality. Emer is a solicitor from Swords in Co. Dublin, and a member of the group Tá Comhionannas. “Is i Éire an chéad tír ar domhan chun ceist faoi chomhionannas pósta a chur roimh an bpobal i Reifreann bunreachtuil. …
Actor Aidan Gillen joins the #VoteWithUs campaign and gives his reasons for supporting equal marriage in the referendum on May 22nd. Aidan speaks about the enormous benefit to young people in Ireland of a strong yes vote and reminds us that the major child protection organisations and children’s charities have come out in favour of yes too. “Another thing to …
Rebecca is a 21 year old law student in Maynooth University. She wants you to Vote Yes not only for her but for every young LGBT person in Ireland who is struggling to accept themselves. On May 22nd, she wants you to be their voice. Vote Yes! “This referendum is also a powerful symbol for every lost and scared LGBT …
Irene and Sean Wilson are from Kilkenny and have been married for 39 years. They want each of their three children to be treated the same before the law, and ask all voters to think of the consequences of their vote for young gay people now and in the future. “[This vote] is not only a chance to make marriage …
Living in London, Colm will be coming home to vote in the Marriage Referendum because he wants to send a message to young LGBT people that they are accepted as equal citizens under the law in Ireland. “It shouldn’t be about how a marriage is defined, it should be about what a marriage defines – and a marriage defines that …
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 …