Wh all of the rults , Ireland has voted a historic y s gay marriage referendum
Contents:
- IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE
- HISTORIC VOTE IRELAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
- IRISH VOTERS MAKE HISTORY GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM
IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE
Polls open as Ireland be first untry to ask electorate about legalisg gay marriage * ireland gay marriage poll *
Mr Varadkar revealed publilly durg the referendum mpaign that he was gay.
HISTORIC VOTE IRELAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
“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.