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A group of Irish comedians unable to vote in Friday’s (25 May) Irish referendum on legal abortion have come together to urge those with a poll card to ‘Be Our Yes’.

The online film features Irish actors and comedians such as Chris O’Dowd, Ed Byrne and Graham Linehan, as well as the half-Irish Katherine Ryan, Jimmy Carr and Roisin Conaty – all of whom cannot get to the polls on Friday themselves.

In various clips they explain how voting to repeal the Eighth Amendment from the country’s constitution is a matter of women’s liberty, and ask those able to vote to ‘Be Our Yes’. As it stands, the Eight Amendment guarantees unborn right to life, hence criminalising the majority of abortions.