There is continued coverage of a Red C poll commissioned by Open Europe showing that Irish voters are strongly opposed to a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and would vote no by a larger margin than the last time around if a second vote was held. The Irish Independent, in an article discussing Open Europe and its business supporters, reports on the opposition of the Irish Labour Party to a ...

In an interview with yesterday’s Irish Independent, Irish Europe Minister Dick Roche said a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is “the appropriate response” for Ireland. He said: "My personal view is that a referendum is the appropriate response to the position we are in.

The Irish Times reports that an alliance of 136 councillors has called for a No vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum, stating that its ratification would be a bad deal for Ireland. The alliance said ratifying Lisbon would undermine democracy. The alliance includes Independent councillors and members of Sinn Féin, the People Before Profit Alliance, the Socialist Party and Labour.

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...

A new poll by Irish company Red C, commissioned by Open Europe, has found that 71% of Irish voters are against a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and that, of those who expressed an opinion, 62% would vote "no" That would mean the "no" lead would increase from 6 points in the recent referendum to a commanding 24 point lead in a second vote.

Asked if the Prime Minister would welcome a second referendum in Ireland and would it have any impact on a possible referendum in the UK, the PMS replied that as people knew, we had already ratified the Lisbon Treaty and had had an extensive parliamentary debate on the passage of the Lisbon Treaty Bill. Any decision that the Irish took on their own ratification process, was a matter for the Irish ...

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.

Tim has commented on this quite beautiful piece of chicanery from the Irish Europe Minister, Dick Roche: The Irish Republic may need to hold a second referendum on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, despite its rejection by voters in June, an Irish minister says. Irish Europe Minister Dick Roche said that "because we’ve already had a referendum on this issue I think the people will have to be consulted"....

Europe Ireland to hold second referendum on Lisbon Treaty; Gordon Brown questions legal status of “concessions” as Irish government admits it will take months to agree what form they will take There is wide coverage of yesterday’s EU summit in Brussels, where Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen gave a commitment to hold a new referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in return for a number of...

There might just have been an argument to support the Lisbon Treaty (LT) in the 2008 Irish referendum, although I do not see it myself, but it is impossible to make a valid case to vote in favor of the LT in the forthcoming October 2009 referendum, as this second referendum in itself is a massive betrayal of the democratic will of the Irish people. At the 2008 referendum, which took place a year a...