Polls open as Ireland be first untry to ask electorate about legalisg gay marriage
Contents:
- IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE
- IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD
- IRISH VOTERS MAKE HISTORY GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM
- HISTORIC VOTE IRELAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE
Mr Varadkar revealed publilly durg the referendum mpaign that he was gay.
IRELAND VOT TO APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE, PUTTG COUNTRY VANGUARD
“I would like to have seen that the rights of gay and lbian men and women uld have been rpected whout changg the fn of marriage. Senator Filma Healy Eam, who also mpaigned for a No vote, said the referendum “for me was never anti-gay”. She said she had swched her vote om Y to No simply bee of her ncerns around nstutnal change and s effect on a child’s No advocy group Mothers and Fathers Matter exprsed “warm ngratulatns” to the Y si but said that one three Irish people - the vote rat - were not reprented by the polil mpaigner and Fianna Fáil Senator Averil Power said gay mpaigners who told their stori on the doorsteps of voters had “helped to change Ireland for all of ”, not jt the gay said she had seen many of them rced to tears by the experience they had durg the mpaign.
Senator David Norris, who fought om the 1970s to 1993 to have homosexualy crimalised, weled the rult.
IRISH VOTERS MAKE HISTORY GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM
“I believe that by the end of today gay people will be equal this untry.
Ireland has voted by a huge majory to legalise same-sex marriage, beg the first untry the world to do so by popular vote a move hailed as a social revolutn and weled around the 62% of the Irish Republic’s electorate voted favour of gay marriage.
HISTORIC VOTE IRELAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
The huge Y vote marks another tone Ireland’s journey towards a more liberal, secular of an electorate of more than 3 ln, 1, 201, 607 backed gay marriage, while 734, 300 voters said No. The rult prompted a massive street party around the gay district of central Dubl close to the natnal unt centre.