#VoteWithUs Videos that feature people from, or with strong connections to, Dublin.
Ciaran shares his personal experience of growing up gay in an honest and forthright manner. His earnest wish is for people to bear in mind the trauma that LGBT youth have suffered in their lives and how a yes vote will go a long way to alleviating that disadvantage.
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 …
Leo Varadkar is the Minister for Health and has been a TD since 2007. For him, a yes vote is a choice toward liberty, toward equality for all. He rightly points out the harsh discriminations that existed in Ireland in the past which we find unacceptable today; and the truth about how marriage as an institution has evolved. He also tackles …
Kritika Ashok, director of myartgallery.ie, and Richard Jackson, a renewable energy engineer, are a couple and are eagerly looking forward to voting Yes on May 22nd. This will be Kritika’s first vote as an Irish citizen, and one that she’s proud to cast to help realise the kind of country she wants for her children and for all of us. …
In July 2009, Brian & Lolo got married in Lolo’s home city of Cáceres, Spain, in front of their family, friends and the State. They wanted to share their story and ask others to share the right to marry in Ireland to them and to other loving couples. “We want to be recognised, and our relationship valued for how important …
David works in Oxford as an academic, and is from Skerries in Dublin. He believes that Ireland has made huge strides in equality in the previous decade, and that we now have a chance to achieve something truly historic. In his video, he addresses some of these myths, and presents the reality that voter turn out matters hugely if we …
Shane Hegarty is a journalist and author from Skerries. While he will not be directly affected by the outcome of the equal marriage referendum, he knows that thousands across Ireland will be, and he’s voting yes for them. ‘I have four young children and when I was growing up, Ireland was an at times cruel place and an openly discriminatory …
Mark is a 23 year old student from Dundrum in Dublin. He is motivated to vote YES on behalf of his friend and asks others to join him in supporting the equal rights of LGBT people in Ireland. “I always would have been a supporter of equal marriage but I never really thought about why. After my friend came out, …
Rob is 23 and from Glenageary in Dublin. Together with a small group of friends who have known one another since secondary school, he created videos for the campaign in which they stand up for the equality of their friend and ask others to join them in voting YES on May 22nd. “When I vote yes, I’ll be thinking about …
Ella is 23, from south county Dublin, and recently graduated from Trinity College where she made her video alongside some friends. She’s standing up for equality by voting YES and asks others to take action with her to help create the better Ireland we want to see. “I’m voting yes because it’s time in Ireland that we had a change. …