Spotted in Sligo.
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iJoan
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Yesterday.
Expensive phone selfie-ness outside the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
Mark writes:
The launch of the Labour Party’s #MakeItHappen campaign aimed at encouraging supporters of the referendum to take practical steps to get more people to vote Yes. The #MakeItHappen campaign will be rolled out over the course of the next three weeks. The first activity of the #MakeItHappen campaign is to talk to older people and to persuade them of the need to vote Yes.
Top from left: Brenna Clarke, Jimmy Somers, Jack Eustace, Grace Williams, Alice Somers, Alex White [Director of the Labour’s Marriage referendum campaign] and Joan Burton.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Gulp.
Brendan Courtney tweetz:
“Just got hate mail – a NO campaigner thinks it’s ok to post anonymous HATE! I am a VERY PROUD FAGGOT! U coward!”
No Shame
at
Your ‘equal right’ to vote no.
Wait, what?
Joe writes:
Spotted outside UCD Dublin…Pretty sure that’s Trinity College’s front arch….
Fight!
They can’t be here to vote…
David Burns writes:
Under Irish electoral law, the vast majority of emigrants are excluded from voting in the upcoming referendum on May 22.
Our legislation is amongst the most restrictive in Europe regarding an overseas vote. 60,000+ emigrants can potentially vote under law if they return home but most Irish abroad are disenfranchised.
This video from the recently launched “#BeMyYes” campaign puts out a message from across the world from those people – including James Vincent McMorrow, Peter Stringer and Laura Whitmore.
Ann Marie O’Connor writes:
My mate Diarmuid Furlong is going to Vienna [Austria] for Eurovision, but is flying home for 17 hours to vote [In the Marriage Referendum]…
The marriage referendum.
It’s more than manicures and cakes.
Photographer Ronan Pallister fumes:
A video trying to “rebalance the reliance on stock imagery in media coverage” of the marriage referendum….
The Yes Campaign.
It means nothing Twomey.
To me.
Suit yourselves.
Irish people resent being bullied by either Church or State. Yet, ordinary citizens are being intimidated into voting “Yes”. For over a year, the campaign waged by the Government urged on by the media has been relentless. In the final weeks, reason may triumph over emotion. As they prepare to vote, people will ask, reasonably: what are we being asked to change? The simple answer is: human nature.
This referendum touches the very source of our humanity. Human rights are at the heart of the Constitution. Article 41 recognises the family, based on marriage, as the fundamental unit group in Society.
As such it has rights which are intrinsic to it, which the State is obliged to recognise and protect. In other words, the family, which existed before either Church or State existed, not only has a real autonomy within society: it is the ultimate source of society.
Past and future converge in the family. Through marriage, future generations come into being. A nation’s culture is passed on primarily through the family. Since the dawn of time, the union of man and woman was simply assumed to be the origin of the family. This is what we are being asked to change.
Dr Vincent Twomey
We Can Yes
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The Launch of Fianna Fáil’s Yes Campaign at the Dean Hotel, Dublin with (above) a personal message from former minister Pat Carey.
Top from left: Emma Murphy, Margaret Gill, Micháel Martin, Averil Power and Pat Carey.
Thanks Martin Flanagan
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile…
This afternoon
People Before Profit Alliance’s Yes Campaign launch in Buswells Hotel, Dublin.
From left: Barry Martin, Adrienne Wallace, Richard Boyd Barrett and Ailbhe Smyth.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile…
This afternoon
The Yes Equality ‘Marriage Matters’ launch in Hatch Street, Dublin
From left: Grainne Healy, Mark Kelly and Brian Sheehan
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
