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.

[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.

[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]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[CrystalMcPistol]

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

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

[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!

[bumbleymummy]

Yep. It was a ridiculous article.

[WinterOfOurDiscountTents15]

[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.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

It's a good day for Ireland.

[ProcrastinatorGeneral]

Superb!