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The center-right Fine Gael Party is the senior partner now ruling Ireland in coalition with the Labour Party. Together they currently hold 102 out of the 166 seats in the principal chamber of the Irish legislature.

“There’s a whole world out there who aren’t tuned into social media. They’re the people we need to reach.”

Some of you have said that Ireland has produced the best equality messaging of any marriage campaign we’ve seen. That may be because they’ve kept an eye on what did and didn’t work in other countries. By the way, hurling, it turns out, is a sport.

JMG reader Helen sends us the above photo of today’s big marriage rally in Dublin, where the crowd of thousands was joined by entertainers and politicians. That’s Helen in the red holding the LGBT Noise banner. To Helen’s left is her wife. The Irish Mirror reports: An estimated crowd of nearly 5,000 people gathered at Merrion Square in Dublin for …

Back in January 2014, the anti-gay Iona Institute claimed that it had been defamed when drag performer Rory O’Neill (Panti Bliss) called them “homophobes” during an appearance on Irish state television’s Saturday Night Show. The network then paid the Iona Institute €85,000 in an out of court settlement, spawned outrage and protests over their capitulation. Last night Irish Equality Minister …

“90 year old Madeline Connolly, who has 14 children, 25 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren, on how she believes that God made us all equal and how everyone should have the opportunity to get married.”

A parody of this clip is already out.

From the Irish Times: Tech giant eBay has become the latest multinational to back a Yes vote in the upcoming referendum on marriage equality. Speaking at the company’s offices in Dublin, eBay chief executive John Donahoe said the company was strongly supportive of the referendum. “Globally we always had a very strong commitment to diversity inclusion for the very simple …

You’ll like this satire. Bonus points for the Regnerus mention.

Last night I came across the below videos from an Irish anti-gay marriage group calling themselves Mandate For Marriage.  From their “about” page: Mandate for Marriage is a website established by Mr Sean Burke, who lives in Castlebar, Co. Mayo with his wife and family. He presents the case that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that …

Yesterday I reported that the couple who currently appears in Ireland’s anti-gay marriage campaign is very unhappy that their photo is being used. Today Amnesty International unveiled a new image from that photo shoot and published a lengthy statement from the still unnamed couple. An excerpt: We look forward to raising our son (in the picture) and our second child …

Via the Telegraph: A couple who feature on a poster encouraging a ‘no’ vote in the Republic of Ireland’s marriage equality referendum are said to be ‘appalled’ that their image is being used for the campaign. The man and woman, who have yet to be identified, feature on a poster that reads ‘Children deserve a mother and a father’. Australian …

Via Irish Central: A round of appreciative applause and a long, slow wolf whistle, please, for Irish men – they’ve just been voted the sexiest in the world. This is according to MissTravel.com, a US-based travel and dating website. The site recently announced the results of a survey that polled “over 110,000 American singles to discover the most desired nationalities.” …

Clip recap: In a world where people fall in love, and want to say “I do,” and officialdom says “Oh no you don’t” – Ireland’s favourite all-girl music-comedy sexy-singing –sensations, The Nualas, add their voices to those who say “Oh yes we will.” The Nualas wrote a song, laid down the track in a studio, and shot a video in …

Yes, there are homocons in Ireland. Via the Irish Journal: Passions were running high in the RTÉ studios last night – as campaigners from either side of the same-sex marriage argument took part in a Late Late Show debate. For the Yes side, Amnesty Ireland director Colm O’Gorman and Irish Times columnist Una Mullally were the main speakers. Keith Mills …

The center-right Fine Gael Party is the senior partner now ruling Ireland in coalition with the Labour Party. Together they currently hold 102 out of the 166 seats in the principal chamber of the Irish legislature.

Via email from Brian Brown: While we in the US have our eyes on the Supreme Court, the people of Ireland also are keenly engaged in the issue of redefining marriage. Interestingly, advocates for redefining marriage in America told the high Court that it’s up to the justices to take this step because “fundamental rights” should not be left to …

In the clip below, staffers at a digital marketing agency take up the “planking” challenge launched by the Irish gym chain Flye Fit. Participants plank for 22 seconds because the marriage equality referendum is May 22nd.

Panti Bliss writes: “Today in Hate Mail. Good Lord but the gays really do bring out the nuts!” A commenter on her Facebook page observes:  “The odd spelling is often a sign that this kind of sickening hate speech was written by American evangelist types. ‘Pedophile’ is how they spell paedophile in the US, and it’s clearly not a typo …