To rally Irish voters here and ask is anyone voting No tomorrow?

[LayMeDown]

I know there's lots of Irish on MN. I don't know anyone in RL voting No. But polls indicates it's tightening a lot. I'm getting scared it won't pass and my lovely brother and his partner will be left out in the cold again. What are you all hearing in your circles?

FYI for any non Irish there is a referendum tomorrow on introducing same sex marriage in Ireland.

[ProcrastinatorGeneral]

Superb!

[MitzyLeFrouf]

It's a good day for Ireland.

[honeyrider]

Just an update: From 2.15pm today same sex marriages can go ahead and any same-sex couples who got married abroad will automatically have their marriages recognised in Ireland. Those who had civil partnerships can now get married if they choose to.

[WinterOfOurDiscountTents15]

[bumbleymummy]

Yep. It was a ridiculous article.

[annieoaklie]

The fact that the young woman would be wandering the streets of Copenhagen regardless of the referendum result completely passes Breda by. What the referendum did was recognise the family in which she was raised as equal to those of her friends.

And in fact lost young girl could have been raised in a family with a mother and father,neither of whom are her genetic parents, because guess what, heterosexual couples avail of reproductive medicine too!

[CrystalMcPistol]

There should be an Irish Breda O'Brien drag queen!

Breda would see the funny side. I'm sure she would.

[Icimoi]

I find it frightening that Breda O'Brien is allowed to teach impressionable young people. Someone who thinks it fine to look at her 7 year old child in terms of her current child bearing ability has no business being near children.

[leedy]

Not to mention the fact that she completely ignores the fact that heterosexual couples use assisted reproduction and donor gametes too! Or that of course there are other ways for same sex couples to have families - eg my friends where two same sex couples co-parent their biological children, no mystery Danes involved.

[CrystalMcPistol]

Jasper the image of the poor Irish girl wandering around Copenhagen shaking her test tube at the men of Denmark is beyond parody. 'Sir would you be my Daddy?' she tremulously enquired of Lars Larsson.

All we need is an imagined Daily Mail sad face to go with that.

[CrystalMcPistol]

leedy the article where she said she weighed her 7 year old daughter to see if she'd be capable of carrying a baby to term really was the moment for me that she slipped from intolerant right-winger to poster girl for extreme Catholic crazy.

[leedy]

Helpful corrective if you are suffering from reading Breda: twitter.com/charlieconnelly/status/602773228214419456

[CrystalMcPistol]

We do not have to admire the fact that the campaign may have lasted weeks, but the soft coverage of gay icons and celebrities and “human interest” stories pushing the Yes side have been going on for years, with the enthusiastic collusion of the media.

Filthy old showbiz is to blame putting the gays on our screens when we all know it's only right and proper that they be shunned. Why can't we go back to the lovely Catholic Ireland where sweet and wholesome Dana was our only icon.

[leedy]

I am so glad I don't live in the world in Breda's brain.

Breda who, I recall, also once referred to a raped child's anencephalic foetus as a "poor disabled baby" and described how she weighed her primary school aged daughter to see if she was big enough to carry a baby to term.

[JasperDamerel]

That poor young hypothetical musical Irishwoman with her Danish genes and the loving Irish parents. I bet that she cries every night, wishing that she'd never been born or that, at the very least that the law had refused to recognise her non-biological mother as a legal parent.

"Oh, mammy" she says, "if only that nice Breda O'Brien had got her way. Everyone would have been so loving and tolerant and would have seen you as absolutely the equal of any heterosexual parent, and that time when I broke my arm when mum was away on a work trip there would have been no trouble with the paperwork. And I really appreciated all her love and care when she pointed out over and over again that my parents were selfish for creating me in the first place and that i was missing out on so much. "

[Koalafications]

*Breda

[Koalafications]

According to the lovely Brenda marriage produces children.

Fascinating, I always thought it was sex.

[GeorgeYeatsAutomaticWriter]

God almighty that Breda O'Brien article is risible. Here, if anyone fancies a laugh.

[Koalafications]

That's such an ignorant line on the front page.

Is she confused by how democracy works?!

[CrystalMcPistol]

Poor old Breda is in tomorrow's Irish Times. She doesn't seem to be a huge fan of democracy since the referendum went against her and her cronies.

She'll be staging a military coup next week, armed with rosary beads and miraculous medals.

[Koalafications]

So happy with the result.

[Anniegetyourgun]

I was young once, that was supposed to say! Damn. Re-read it twice too.

[Anniegetyourgun]

... let me also explain the "prefer it if they didn't". I have no problem with hand holding/kissing in public. Nice. Cute. Writhing and squelching is a bit strong though - it's not wrong (I was one too, once) - there are times and places - not in the very middle of the commuting crowd at a city terminus. The point is though, "they" means everyone.

[Anniegetyourgun]

Maybe if they're about 13 they might be flaunting. But most people are not. There's no flaunt, just the simple act of affection.

I accept your point. I was taking a bit of a liberty with the word by using it more or less the way the pp appeared to be doing, ie affectionate stuff in public where people can see. As you say, mostly people don't even care whether they're observed or not, and although we might sometimes prefer it if they didn't, everyone should have the same right to do so.