Call for mobilisation of young people to register to vote

A special campaign should be established to encourage second-level students to sign up to the electoral register, the Referendum Commission has advised.

The commission has recommended that school-goers be targeted to capitalise on the significant turnout of young people in the recent marriage equality referendum.

Irish Second-Level Students’ Union president Rob O’Donnell said: “This is something that we have been working on, we encourage students to register, especially sixth-year students, when we go into school.”