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This morning.

The Clarence Hotel, Dublin

Siobhan O Buachalla with her daughter Cliona and Fianna Fáil TD Pat Carey helping to launch the Yes Campaign on behalf of Irish language equality activists Ta Comhionannas in this Marriage Equality Referendum.

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This afternoon.

Fine Gael’s Director of Elections for the Marriage Equality Referendum, Minister Simon Coveney and Minster for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys at the launch of Fine Gael’s dedicated Marriage Equality web portal in the Webfactory, 7 Bachelor’s Walk, Dublin 1.

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36 thoughts on “Bilinguists For Tá

  1. Casey

    Coola-boola lads – crack on. Apologies for the pronounciation, I was not born on this island and the only Irish I know is from Broadsheet and the 13 year old next door who teaches me all the rude words

    1. Matthew

      The rephrase of “a surrogate mother wanted to keep her child that she had contracted to give to [another] couple.” should highlight why this has absolutely nothing to do with this referendum.

      1. newsjustin

        It is relevant because, were this case in Ireland, if the other couple (who are two gay men) were married, they would have the full protection of the Irish Constitution to remove the child (who was being breast-fed) from its mother.

        The mother in this case seems like a kind of nasty person, or certainly is reported in that light.

        1. Don Pidgeoni

          The mother who entered into the agreement in the first place, albeit with devious intent…. You may not agree with surrogacy and fair enough, do not it then. But it has nothing to do with the SSM referendum and it will continue to happen regardless of whether the referendum passes or not, in both gay and straight couples. Better to concentrate on making sure families of all kinds are supported and that surrogacy laws adequately cover such situations to prevent stress on children.

        2. Der

          Would have full protection to remove the child from its breastfeeding mother? Wft? That is simply not true.

    2. Don Pidgeoni

      It completely does, Unless you read that link that says the couple were more than happy to co-parent with her, because shock horror, the gays understand that its important for people to know their parents and that the women was over-egging her separation of the child. She also made homophobic towards the father of her child. Who does that?

      Oh, and she still gets to see the child. So, yeah. whatever.

    3. Grace

      newsjustin- why don’t you get in touch with your TDs now if you are concerned about surrogacy? The government will be legislating for that later this year.
      The marriage vote in a couple of weeks is about civil marriage between two gay adults. Those no posters certainly are muddying the waters recently!

    4. Jane

      Well, I think that case was a particularly notable one, but it’s not unheard of for a surrogate to change their mind after the birth of a baby regardless of the sex of the couple with whom she contracted. To the best of my knowledge, this is accepted as a risk when you start down the road to finding a surrogate and the courts generally decide in the birth mother’s favour.

      1. newsjustin

        The commodification of children will lead to such nasty legal battles. And I worry that SSM will simple add fuel to that fire.

        1. scottser

          ‘commodification of children’? which pseudo-intellectual bog-roll did lift that from?

        2. ReproBertie

          That’s the No campaign atttiude to surrogacy in a nutshell.

          Surrogacy may be a fire.
          SSM may add fuel to the fire.
          Ignore that the fire already exists but fight the thing that might add a little fuel to it.

          Surrogacy exists. Surrogacy will be legislated for in October or November of this year. The referendum won’t change either of those things. Drop the red herring.

        3. Supercrazyprices

          Is newsjustin one of those “Oh I’m voting Yes (but really I’m voting No) two-faced types?

      1. newsjustin

        Or “Father awarded ownership of child he bought from unhinged mother – bailiffs recommend father bottle feed child against WHO recommendations.”

        Overly long though…

  2. bisted

    ….Carey is no longer a TD…he got the boot in 2011 from Dublin. Don’t worry though, he got a huge payoff and a generous pension.

  3. Starina

    i traded a Yes badge for a Tá badge when i was down the wesht last weekend. delighted with it

  4. ctrl+z

    Is anyone else getting annoyed with V being crowbarred in to Gaeilge or should I just let it go?

    1. ReproBertie

      No, keep fighting the good fight. ABCDEFGHILMNOPRSTU was enough for Peig. I get very annoyed with this veist and zú business.

      1. John E. Bravo

        H? Tis far from H you were reared. Dots above preceding consonants for life.

        1. ReproBertie

          I was going to put the H in brackets for that very reason but there was a h for the likes of go h-álainn.

      2. Shane

        Exactly vótáil tá gach aoine!
        So that everyone can enjoy Lá Vailintín equally.

        (Also don’t forget to get your vacsaíní form your local vacsaíneoir before travelling to Daonphoblacht Vítneam and make sure to pack suitable clothes like veisteanna from your vardrús. Vástchótaí are not acceptable and may confuse the local Vítneamaigh).

        So take your vitimíní and Vótáil Tá

    2. Dubloony

      Let it go, its been there for a while. Should be a better effort made at translation though.

    3. Ultach

      Please explain (I don’t understand what you’re on about), and if it’s suitably offensive to the wilting Gaeilgeoir flowers I’m your man!

      1. Ultach

        Ah, right, I see now. No, it’s not an issue. No outrage here. Stand down Gaelic hordes, stand down!

  5. chris

    This is the only compelling reason to vote no that I have seen:
    The abuse of the Irish language, where Vót is the Irish for Vote, and all f a sudden we forget that the putative imperative tense would be Vótagí…

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