Just to provide some perspective for anyone that watched the video:
-If the referendum ends with the 8th amendment being repealed in Ireland, it won't suddenly make all abortions legal. The current plan is to make abortions legal but only if the pregnancy hasn't passed the twelve week point.
-Ireland already offers emergency abortions if there's a threat to the life of the mother regardless of pregnancy length (be it illness or suicide). This had been something that a large number of people had been asking for ever since the early 90s during what's now known as the "X" case, but the tipping point was in 2012, when a woman by the name of Savita Halappanavar died in a hospital in Ireland because of complications during a miscarriage. People were PISSED. It was a national scandal, and it was in 2013 that the government finally brought in provisions to protect the life of the mother in such a scenario.
As far as the video goes, I can't speak for whether the pro-marriage people were funded by foreign companies. They very well might have been. What I can say, however, is that in the run-up to the vote, I saw far more media rallying AGAINST gay marriage on television and online. At LEAST half the youtube videos I watched during that period started with ads spouting uninformed rhetoric about how the country would fall apart if gay marriage was allowed.
He doesn't talk about how it's been commonly reported here that foreign companies are sponsoring the side that wants to KEEP the abortion legislation the way it is at the moment, offering far more funding than the alternative are getting that I can see.
He speaks about the signs that the extremists are using at rallies. Tasteless, sure, but no more tasteless than the pro-life extremists that stand in the middle of O'Connell Street (to you Americans, basically our Times Square), shoving pictures of dead foetuses in to the faces of both adults AND children with no regard for the people they're doing it to.
It's going to be a messy next few months, and I'm sure people will report all sorts of things about it.
For me personally? If you're pro life, great. Cool beans. I'm pro choice. I don't want a say in what happens to a baby unless it's a baby I helped make. So I will be voting to repeal the legislation myself. The vote at this point could go either way because socially, Ireland has shifted a LOT in the last thirty years. So it remains to be seen how close things will get.
Oh, and his comments about Brexit make him sound ****ing retarded.