Will Keane

Will Keane is from Roscommon and talks about the experience of growing up in small-town Ireland, from where he moved to Dublin as a young man. He’s recently moved back to Roscommon and his video frankly and insightfully deals with the realities of life for gay people in rural Ireland – lives that we can all work together to make …

Tina Moriarty

Tina Moriarty, from Castlegregory in Co Kerry, has four children, one of whom is lesbian. Tina knows she has a personal stake in ensuring her daughter has equal rights in our country, and she is worried about people becoming complacent about securing a Yes vote. In her beautifully expressed and heartfelt video, she is asking people to make the right decision for …

Shane Hegarty

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 …

Breda and Gerry Kinahan

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 …

Aidan Gillen

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 …

Margie & Ivor

Margie and Ivor are a married couple from Cork with two gay sons. They are asking you to Vote YES in the upcoming Marriage Equality referendum on May 22nd. “We are married 26 years. About 5 years ago our twin sons told us they were gay. Like any parents we want our children to be treated the same. We don’t …

Kathleen Sharkey

Is as Gaeltacht Thír Chonaill ó dúchais Kathleen Sharkey, agus insíonn sí dúinn anseo cén fáth a bhfuil sí ag vótáil Tá ar an 22ú Bealtaine, mar aon le cé chomh tábhachtach is atá an lá seo dí féin agus dá muíntir. Tá mac aige atá aerach, agus de bharr gur clann Dé muid uile, creideann sí gur cheart atá …

Margaret Burke

Margaret and Róisín live in Dublin where they are busily working as teachers and looking after their three small children. They helped set up the initiative LGBTwithkids.com, which promotes the visibility of LGBT parented families in the run up to the referendum. “The prospect of marriage equality being voted into law by my fellow citizens is like the thought of …

Nadine Douglas

Nadine is a mother and a lesbian living in Dublin. She has been campaigning for Marriage Equality for many years and knows all too well that Civil Partnerships are not equal to Marriage. She wants this vote to pass to hand the dream of marriage back to LGBT people. “[When civil partnerships were drafted] people sat around a table and went …

Valerie Geraghty

Valerie lives in Knocklyon, Dublin. She is a mother of two sons and sees the referendum as a window to make thousands of gay people, and the people who love them, happy. “This referendum affects the happiness of thousands of gay people across the country. But it also affects the happiness of all of the people like me who love …