#marref
#HometoVote #MarRef TEN years good lord
Annie West's recreation of her own illustration was glorious and makes me cry all over again.
May 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
May 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Cleaning up my cloud photos and this still makes me laugh
July 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Incidentally, today is the 11th anniversary of the #MarRef count and victory...🌈🏳️‍🌈
May 23, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Once upon a time I had to spend a half hour looking over spoiled votes (for #MarRef) with Catherine Connolly.
October 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ten years after. #MarRef #YesEqualityCork.
RIP Mary, Dave, Siobhan.
The struggle continues.
May 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Thank you! Delighted #hometovote made it #marref
May 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We desperately need a mass movement, like the Water Charges, MarRef and Repeal movements, to force the Catholic Church out of ownership of Irish institutions. It’s the only way change comes in Ireland.
I am seething over the schools abuse report.

It is going to take me a few days to articulate a practical road forward.

For the moment, all I can say is that at each previous similar moment a show of state sympathy has been followed by a long war against survivors, to protect institutions.
September 5, 2024 at 8:55 AM
They came when we called. Tens of thousands of em. How is it ten years already? #hometovote #marref #marrefmemories
May 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Reminds me of the assumptions made by many during #MarRef & #Repeal the 8th campaigns that liberal reforms would be a harder sell in working class areas than middle class ones. In reality, it became obvious on the campaign trail that the reverse was true.
May 28, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Irish media are gas. They’re terrible at counting. For years they got the temperature of the country wrong on Repeal and MarRef. They always underestimated our rally numbers while overestimating our opponents’ (who bussed people in from all over). They’re wrong about transphobes now.
September 17, 2023 at 7:10 AM
This time 10 years ago, we were finishing our last mass canvass in Dublin West for Marriage Equality. Thank you to everyone who gave so much to that campaign 🏳️‍🌈❤️ #marref
May 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
TBT #marref and #repeal and we tried to say this but were shushed and told all sides need to be heard and sincerely held beliefs are more important than rights and equality. And now the same people are running for #Áras25 saying they want to defend the constitution. It would make you sick.
all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.
September 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Seeing as it's ten whole years since #MarRef this lil #HomeToVote print is once again available if you didn't get one last time. A small edition of 1, 201,607 and all profits go to www.belongto.org
Get yours here: www.anniewest.com/other-images...
May 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
And remember all the scolding we all got during MarRef and Repeal? “Not doing your side any favours”? Almost never from anyone actually on your side.
Gonna be more annoying from now on.
February 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Something that MarRef/ Repeal opened my eyes to was quite how detached and lacking in knowledge political commentators were. They literally hadn’t a clue what conservations were happening beyond Kildare St and wouldn’t believe us when we told them. Let’s remember that when we talk of the far right.
November 23, 2023 at 11:15 PM
Remember the tone policing of #marref and #repealthe8th?
There is no acceptable way to protest the right, in their opinion - they are afraid of any and all criticism of their behaviour and ideas.
I just don't know what people actually want us to do.

Should we have not commented on his post? Should we have just left it up to the centrists and far right to say "Yeah actually he has a point when he says there is an immigration problem".

Would that be been better in the long run?
March 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Throwback to voting YES in the Marriage Equality Referendum on this day 10 years ago, May 22nd 2015.

It’s been a decade since Ireland became the first country in the world to vote YES to Marriage Equality ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
May 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A deep dive into the Irish news media's opinion columns in the run-up to Repeal and MarRef would leave a few of our media betters looking red-faced in 2025 I think.
August 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I had stilled my anti religion side, thinking people were living & let live, now that #marref & #repeal basically set the temp for Ireland (ie believe what you like, but leave people alone)

Recently I met an Aontú kid & his “handler” & they are full on wanting to apply catholic sharia in Ireland.
August 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
10 years ago. As we waited for the #MarRef results at Cork HQ. I’ll never forget that weekend. ❤️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪
May 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Is there anyone ten years later still opposing #marref & they don’t think it’s based on homophobia? #speirgorm
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