Sad reflection as i wait to board my flight #HomeToVote – the cost of my travel from #Toronto was less than my travel costs to the UK when I needed to access safe abortion services. #together4yes #Repealthe8th
— Emma Jayne Geraghty (@Emma_Geraghty) May 20, 2018
Boarding a 13 hour flight from Buenos Aires to London. London to Dublin tomorrow. No one at airport knows what my repeal jumper means. No one here knows why I'm travelling. If this feels isolating for me, can't imagine how lonely it must be 4 her, travelling 2 the UK #HomeToVote
— Ciaran Gaffney (@gaffneyciaran) May 22, 2018
Cost of flights from Hanoi to Dublin: 800 euro. Length of journey: 20 hours. Chance to #repealthe8th: PRICELESS. #hometovote #Together4Yes pic.twitter.com/oROnKcBXcF
— the cute hoor (@HoorayForNiamh) May 22, 2018
Now bringing my repeal sign and Mayo jersey to Doha, Qatar! Halfway there! #VietnamToIreland #HomeToVote #together4yes #repealthe8th pic.twitter.com/MmwxRz71KD
— the cute hoor (@HoorayForNiamh) May 22, 2018
Poster is a bit worse for wear and I'm in desperate need of a cup of tea but I AM HOME! #hometovote #Together4Yes #repealthe8th pic.twitter.com/h0aVmp6Z77
— the cute hoor (@HoorayForNiamh) May 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/made0fglitter/status/999280581685870593
15,000km roundtrip starts today. As I travel today, I’ll be thinking of all the women who’ve made a journey overseas to access the care and support they should be receiving in Ireland #hometovote #RepealTheEighth #Together4Yes pic.twitter.com/tsuINt1oIy
— Hannah (@HaytchTeeHaytch) May 23, 2018
Sitting in @EDI_Airport waiting to board and go #hometovote. Head to toe @Together4yes and @repealproject. Emotions are at me and it’s going to be a long, tough few days. But feeling encouraged and cautiously optimistic! Let’s do this. #hometovoteYes #repealthe8th #8thref pic.twitter.com/sA7od5YXRv
— Bobbie Nolan (@bobbienolan) May 23, 2018
Flying over the sea today in the hope that Irish women will no longer have to make the trip after this Friday #hometovote #together4yes #repealthe8th #trustwomen pic.twitter.com/pq8Tgr39Uk
— Ciara (@ciara_alison) May 23, 2018
Feeling terrified but determined #HometoVote #TáforMná pic.twitter.com/FXRYYElpuc
— Áine (@aine_elizabeth) May 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/TouchingVirus/status/999265248862461952
I'm coming #HomeToVote ! Will be traveling 5,169 miles from LA to Dublin and will be thinking of every Irish woman who has had to travel to access healthcare that should be available in their own country. Let's do this, Ireland! #repealthe8th #VoteYes pic.twitter.com/fZDxUIGrs9
— Lauryn Canny (@LaurynCanny) May 23, 2018
Send us your reasons for going #hometovote ‘No’ in #8thref ☘️ pic.twitter.com/7hZPUWBlnz
— Ldn-Irish United For Life (@LdnIrishU4L) May 23, 2018
People return to Ireland ahead of Friday’s referendum on the Eighth Amendment.
Via #hometovote
Previously: Home To Vote Souvenir (2015)
Just wanted to say it here that to be eligible to vote you must be ordinarily resident in the country on September 1st of 2017.
This is something that does not really get checked as if you are registered then you are registered.
But that is the fact.
I will most likely travel home to vote if I have the money tomorrow, but I certainly will not plaster it all over social media for this very reason.
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/moving_to_ireland/introduction_to_the_irish_system/right_to_vote.html
Excellent work!!
Really encouraging stuff!!
Well done Broadsheet.
Reporting some of these to their local authority as they are trying to vote illegally. €800 on a flight for nothing.
aren’t you fun
FYI…some NY rag I think its free at subway stations or something….
https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/new-york/how-new-yorks-irish-community-reacting-to-the-abortion-referendum
Very moving actually. Well done to all of them – even the token no voter ;)
Even the No voter indeed – its great to see people going to such lengths to stand up for what they believe!
I might disagree, but its great to see people taking their duty in this matter seriously, so well done to all, including the No voters, admirable dedication.
+1
Exactly! You put it far better than ibdid.
Or better than I did, even…
Not so much an ibdid as an op cit.
No it’s not. It’s abhorrent that some other person thinks it’s ok to risk my girls life because they have a principal. Fup them. Fup every last one of them. May they rot in the hell they believe in.
You seem like a nice chap
Do you think this is some kind a joke ? Have an old laugh at how the other half have to live.. there is nothing funny about what the 8th has done to the citizens of this country..
Ease up on the rage there bucko, it’s not good for your health
That’s not rage..
The No Voter should rephrase – Where I live I am valued and have full access to healthcare but I’m coming home to vote No to make sure women in Ireland don’t have these same rights then I’ll go back to the UK where I can get proper healthcare and pretend all the Irish women flying over to the UK don’t exist. Lalalala Ireland is abortion free.
Surprised any No voter can live somewhere as terrible as the UK with all their killing of babies we’ve seen in posters over the last while
Where I live I am valued and have full access to healthcare but I’m coming home to vote No to make sure women in Ireland don’t have these same rights then I’ll go back to the UK where I can get proper healthcare and pretend all the Irish women flying over to the UK don’t exist. Lalalala Ireland is abortion free.
Hmm, doesn’t quite roll off the tongue or fit on a sign.
Work up some alternatives and represent at 9 tommorow, there’s a good girl
Unfortunately life and pregnancy are not simple and the many complex and difficult stories I have heard don’t fit easily on a sign indeed nor do the real reasons why some are such vocal No advocates. Much easier to put a meaningless platitude on a sign like the No voter above.
Ps good girl? Am I to take it you are a No voter with your patronizing and condescending attitude towards grown women?
He’s not actually, I don’t think.
He is however a scallywag who enjoys riling earnest folk such as ourselves.
You can take whatever you want or you could realise that it was a joke and something aimed squarely at the type of person who could type your meaningless platitudes paragraph and not realise that it applies to both sides equally.
Glad you lived up to the cliche though
See! Exactly what I was talking about.
Is that meant to be funny or something..?
My hat off to them – coming home to vote. Well done all, even the last one (through gritted teeth).
But why is it a “token No voter”?
Maybe pairs of fly home to vote No or Yes can call a truce seeing as one vote cancels out the other. And save the tons of carbon that air travel produces? I’m voting Yes on Friday, any No’s out there want to not fly in and I just wont vote? Same difference, Any takers?
Ah ya chancer you.
But nice try.
Fair play to them coming from so far away. Halfway around the world some of them were.
We do a lot for charity but don’t like to talk about it.
my bestie is home from nyc to vote and i can’t wait to seeeeeeee her
:D
Fab weather for a reunion star!
it’s the flagrant illegaility that gets me.
Yes – the fact that women are forced to seek terminations abroad even for reasons of ill health or fatal foetal abnormality is in flagrant breach of EU law
Zing!
10 yes voters and 1 No voter, gotta be Broadsheet
These people are amazing
cutehoor is all that and more
Coming home and paying €800 for the flight is one thing. Banging on about it on Twitter is certainly another…
Antichoice hypocrisy: “I’m travelling from the country I moved to with a liberal abortion regime to deny the women and girls in the country I left the same rights I enjoy by virtue of geography.”
Is there still women out there who think that drag queen size false nails and eyelashes are attractive? Really?
I’m so ahead of the times.
Can I just thank all the #HomeToVote arrivals for bringing the weather with them
Happy flip flop season everyone