An all-party parliamentary report published in Dublin yesterday cleared the way for a re-run of the failed 12 June Lisbon Treaty referendum in Ireland, which threw the Union into crisis.

The Irish Times reports that Vote No to Lisbon, formerly the Campaign Against the EU Constitution, yesterday opened its campaign in Dublin in the run up to the second referendum on 2 October. Speaking at the press conference Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins urged Irish voters to reject the Lisbon Treaty based on its content, rather than a desire to “kick the Government out of office”, t...

A roundup of links on the forthcoming referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland:Worries about taxationIrish Referendum commission websiteEU Ref has a blogpost about it

A new, pan-European campaign called Europe Says No: No to Lisbon, Yes to democracy has been launched. The campaign is being organised by a wide range of people across Europe, and across the political spectrum, who want to see the Lisbon Treaty rejected. In advance of Ireland's outrageous repeat referendum on 2nd October, Europe Says No aims to show how many people across Europe would themselv...

The FT has an article on the expected timeframe for reviving the Lisbon Treaty following the Irish no vote. The paper notes that ?The expectation elsewhere in Europe is Ireland will re-stage the referendum - probably in the spring, in time to allow the treaty to come into effect before the European Parliament elections in June.

The people of Ireland have been bullied, cheated and bribed into voting for the EU Constitution aka the Lisbon Treaty. Despite yesterday’s referendum being on exactly the same Treaty already rejected this year in Ireland, the Irish have been conned into believing the “guarantees” they have been given that the Treaty will be changed are legally

This from the Standard's Paul Waugh: "Premier Brian Cowen will tell the EU summit this week that he wants his country to ratify the treaty by this time next year. Although the words 'second referendum' may not pass his lips, his colleague Europe Minister Dick Roche has just made plain that that is what will happen. Roche says that the treaty can be amended to meet Ireland'...

One of the loudest accusations made by Europhiles against the people of tiny Ireland, who rejected the Lisbon Treaty in their recent referendum, is that the democratic views of 4 million people cannot be allowed to derail a Treaty assented to by 500 million. This makes it sound as if the Lisbon Treaty is a done deal in every square inch of the continent of Europe, and that the Irish are a kind of ...

Support for the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland dropped by eight points over the summer, the latest poll revealed. The slippage is reminiscent of similar trends in the country before the debacle of the first Lisbon referendum in June last year, and the one on the Nice Treaty before that, the Irish press writes today (4 September).

The special sub-committee of the Irish Parliament, set up to evaluate the options for Ireland following its rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, reported yesterday. Interestingly, its recommendations to the Irish government focus on the option of re-running the Lisbon referendum, but on the assumption that the Irish government "would respond to concerns expressed during the referendum campaign". Such