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Actress Saoirse Ronan urges young people to get out and use their vote in #MarRef

Actress Saoirse Ronan was in Dublin this afternoon to launch the Yes Equality 'Your Yes Matters' ...
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15.20 17 May 2015


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Actress Saoirse Ronan urges young people to get out and use their vote in #MarRef

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15.20 17 May 2015


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Actress Saoirse Ronan was in Dublin this afternoon to launch the Yes Equality 'Your Yes Matters' campaign.

The actress, who hails from Co Carlow, is encouraging people to get out and vote Yes in the same-sex marriage referendum on Friday.

However a group on the No side of the Marriage Referendum campaign is appealing to people to recognise the real differences between men and women.

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It comes as the findings of three opinion polls were published in three separate papers today.

The Red C poll for the Sunday Business post surveyed 1009 people nationwide between Monday and Wednesday this week - excluding don't knows the Yes side has 73%, with NO on 27%.

Millward Brown polled for the Sunday Independent, surveying 994 people at 64 sampling points between May 2nd and Friday - almost a quarter said they don't know and when excluded it's 69% Yes, 31% No.

And Behaviour and Attitudes for the Sunday Times interviewed 927 voters between May 1st and 11th, it shows the Yes side down 10 to 63%, No up 4 to 26%, and don't knows up 6 to 11%.

Speaking ahead of today's launch, Saoirse Ronan said the young people of Ireland need to get out and use their vote in order to benefit future generations:

Theologian Dr John Murray is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Iona Institute.

He says it's not regressive to consider marriage only to be between a man and a woman:

Originally published at 15.16


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