Bob Geldof features in anti-Brexit video campaign

Musician urges Irish in UK to register to vote in EU membership referendum in new clip

Bob Geldof has added his voice to a promotional video released by Irish4Europe who are are encouraging Irish people in England to contact their friends, relatives and colleagues to encourage them to to register and vote Remain on 23 June.

Irish musician Bob Geldof has featured in a video campaign launched by a pro-Remain group seeking to mobilise the support of the nearly half a million Irish people who are entitled to vote in the referendum on the UK's EU membership.

The YouTube video - which draws on the viral "Ring Your Granny" campaign strategy during the State's marriage equality referendum - features alternating "self-shot" clips by Irish people listing those whoe they will be lobbying to register to vote by the June 7th deadline.

“My mate in Birmingham, my sister Patty up in the Wye Valley,” says Geldof.

“Ted in Islington . . . The kids in north, south and east London. Every Irish person . . . Vote.”

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During the Scottish independence referendum campaign, Geldof made an emotional appeal to voters at a rally in Trafalgar Square, where he called on voters in Scotland not to break up the "family".

On this occasion, his intervention has been more muted.

Irish4Europe

The video was organised by the Irish4Europe group, whose activists were involved in a visit to London last weekend by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

In 2002, Geldof backed the campaign to keep the pound and featured in an advert launched by campaigners against the UK joining the single currency.

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