Ireland shows a gay-marriage ad done right

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Commercials in support of gay marriage are everywhere these days. Lots of them are less than impressive. Here's one of the better ones, from Ireland, showing a straight man who's faced with quite a task in trying to secure his girlfriend's hand in marriage. Via Osocio. UPDATE: Well, well. As The Dog & Pony Show points out, the Irish ad looks like a cloned copy of the spot below, from the U.S. The earlier ad is listed in Advertolog's archive as a 2005 spot by Publicis in New York for MTV.

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