Tánaiste: No posters ‘sad and demeaning’

Tánaiste Joan Burton has described no campaign posters in the marriage equality referendum as “sad and demeaning” as Labour launched its yes campaign.

The launches were ahead of TV and radio debates this week, with just two and a half weeks before voting day.

Ms Burton yesterday criticised the no poster on surrogacy which depicts a young girl and says she needs her mother for life, not just nine months. The no side claim a yes vote will give same-sex couples a right to surrogacy and a child would be legally ‘motherless’. The yes side say surrogacy has nothing to do with the vote.