Diary of a Gen Z Student: Young voters do care - here's why I'll be using my vote on March 8

"I also remember sitting in Mass when the parish priest mentioned that they were organising buses, to bring people to protest against marriage equality. I was surprised by that at the time. But my vote will count just as much as his one, now."

Jane Cowan is a student in Trinity College Dublin, where she is in her second year, studying English.

I remember waking up with a vague sense of bitterness when I was in primary school any time there was voting going on. 

You see, I had figured out that some schools got the day off, so that the building could be used as a polling station. Mine was not one of the lucky schools. And I was not too pleased about that.