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Of these digitally adjusted No-sters, Enda McNally writes:

Noticed a few No campaign posters for the Marriage Referendum earlier today and felt that their simple headlines really undersold the hysterical scaremongering we’re used to. I made a few quick changes in photoshop and would be very happy to digitally improve any other promotional material they have going. Let’s face it, they do need a bit of a dig out…

Yesterday: Goodbye Mammy

Meanwhile…

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No Campaign Posters Not Only Offensive Just Plain Wrong And I Should Know (Adam Ó Braonáin)

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45 thoughts on “On Message

  1. I, Scooperman

    This is a bit sneery IMO. Just concentrate on the positives of the yes vote. No campaign perfectly capable of messing this up themselves.

  2. Joe Malone

    You just come across as an idiot I’m afraid. Campaign for a yes if that’s your thing but give up on being a lose, there’s a good chap

  3. Dubloony

    The No campaign is made up of seasoned people who know what they are doing. All they need to do is sow fear ad doubt into parts of the population who already would agree with them on many of their points.
    Laughing at them (tempting) won’t win any votes.

    This will be a much tighter result than current polling indicates and yes side must not be smug or complacent about winning it.

    1. scottser

      to scoops, joe, and dub: the no side are there to be laughed at, and laughed at they should be. there’s nothing wrong with an oul laugh at a gobsh1te. ye can remain prim and high-horse-y if ye want but i had a grand chuckle at enda’s handiwork.

      1. Joe the Lion

        So did I. I think it’s fairly gas the way all the reactionary homophobic oriented types commenting here like to mark the No campaign out of 10

    2. Sidewinder

      Seasoned losers though to be fair. 1992, 1995, 2002, 2011 (childrens rights, Mullen and Waters opposed that too I think) – lets add 2015 to the list!

  4. Rob_G

    You are very good at photoshop, but the slogan that you’ve chosen to replace the existing aren’t particularly clever or funny.

  5. wearnicehats

    you know these are going around the interweb getting mauled as being as actual posters. Hope this guy has a good solicitor

  6. Truth in the News

    If The Iona people and the Catholic Church elements keep their
    gobs shut, the yes side will lose, its lot more close than the media
    would have you believe, there is a large NO vote lurking in the long
    grass and are looking to defeat the the government inspired proposal
    Anyways we could always have another one, is it not time to have
    ones on the EU treaties where NO decisions were subsequently reversed
    to now reverse them again in light of the treatment of Ireland by the EU

  7. JimmytheHead

    I think these are great, tho im sure plenty of dopes will think theyre real.
    Cant believe theres one genuine NO poster that says “Babys need a Mammy, not a surrogate”

    ….So by that logic 2 Mammys would be even better!

    1. Drogg

      I am with you Jimmy I like these and I am sick of all this bellyaching about if we take the piss out of the no side people will vote no. I take solitude in the fact that Irish people are polling over 75% to vote yes and I think it shows how far we have come as a country and that is something to be smug about.

      1. Dubloony

        Has anyone polled males over 50? Because i they did, the no side would win.
        It’s all about the turnout.

        1. Nially

          MilwardBrown poll from last month, if you exclude “Don’t Know”s, 55-64 year olds are 66:34 Yes:No (Overall “Don’t Knows” make up 22%)

          That said, you’re right, turnout will be key, especially among younger demographics where support is highest.

          checktheregister.ie if you’re not sure whether you’re on it or not; forms to get on the supplementary register (RFA2, signed by a Garda) need to be processed by May 5th, so April 30th is pretty much the last day you can send them.

        2. Bacchus

          As a male over 50 I can confidently tell you you’re wrong. Almost all I know are voting yes and needed no convincing.

  8. Soundings

    Posters need more Hitler toothbrush moustache.

    It’s understandable, but all this shoutiness and negativity from the No side is irritating to some, perhaps many and might come back to bite you.

    1. Joe the Lion

      Something gay something paedo something. Priest LOL look man I said “mass” geddit?

  9. Eamonn Clancy

    This was probably a good idea after a few beers, but it’s not. It cheap, hollow and meaningless. Unless of course yours 15 and out to impress your mates.

    1. pedeyw

      “It cheap, hollow and meaningless”: Kind of like the actual arguments on the real posters, so.

    1. Drogg

      You have obviously never been on youtube if you think this is anywhere close to a youtube comment section.

  10. Grouse

    Yis are all very grumpy this morning. Threatening the guy with litigation, jaysus. It’s always fair game to make fun of ridiculous campaign posters. You’re free to target the Yes campaign’s posters in return. Campaign posters are generally pretty reductive and stupid on all sides.

  11. Mike Baldwin

    In all seriousness, I watched a video about Nixon taking the US off the Gold Standard and the comments section ended up in a series of ‘i’ll slap you bitch’ threats.

  12. FK

    Campaigns posters for either side are fair game. It’s all part of the it. I doubt a defaced poster would make a person vote no. Are people really that easily led/swayed? Chances are they were going to vote no anyway.

  13. Vote Yes

    This doesn’t help the YES campaign at all it only serves to alienate/dehumanise no voters and increase their conviction for a no vote, change needs to come from within and it will be very hard to change a persons mind after you have insinuated that they are stupid and incapable of reasonable thought.

    1. Nially

      In fairness, if a No voter feels that the original MAFM posters spoke to them, then they *are* stupid and incapable of reasonable thought, and weren’t likely to be swingable anyway.

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