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Bob Geldof has featured in a video campaign launched by a pro-remain group seeking to mobilise the support of close to half a million Irish people 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 which encouraged young Irish people to mobilise their relatives during Ireland’s marital equality referendum - features alternating ‘self shot’ clips by Irish people listing others who they will be lobbying to register by a 7 June 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.”

During the Scottish independence referendum campaign, the musician and campaigner made an emotional appeal 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. The video was organised by the Irish4Europe group, whose activists were involved in a visit last weekend to London by the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny.

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

The #IrishForEurope #PhoneAFriend video