In the video, Dublin man Ross Golden-Bannon talks about how "emotionally and psychologically draining" the process of door-knocking and asking for "yes" votes was.

"Every time we had to do it, it brought back terrible memories for a lot of people," he said. "I met people who privately told me that they went home and cried every night, after they'd canvassed."

His closest friend, Breda Iredale, spoke about a particularly nasty door-knocking incident after entering a man's home to talk to him.

"He said to me, 'Do you expect me to go out and vote for men sticking their cocks up other men's?' I just said alright, thank you, and I walked out," she said.

"I'm an older woman – no one has ever said anything like that to me."

