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

Open Europe has launched a Twitter account. To keep up to date and follow our activities please click here: In the Irish Times, Roger Cole, Chair of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance in Ireland, argues that the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty “is not an Irish battle.

In an interview with the WSJ, Declan Ganley, who became the figurehead for the No campaign in Ireland’s first referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, has announced that he is back to do it again ahead of the re-run referendum on 2 October. He says, “It's profoundly undemocratic to walk all over democracy…The Irish people had a vote on the Lisbon Treaty.

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 ...

Irish Times Political Editor Stephan Collins has an article in the paper arguing that "a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is doomed to almost certain defeat." He therefore suggests that the core of the Treaty should be passed through the Irish Parliament, with a far more limited referendum held on certain points of controversy: "If a referendum cannot be won, the only solution is for the D" ...

Ireland will vote for a second time on the European Union's Lisbon treaty on October 2 – 17 months after the pact was overwhelmingly rejected in a referendum

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.

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'...

Ireland will hold a second referendum on the European Union's Lisbon treaty by the end of next October, according to a draft communiqué prepared for the EU summit

Ireland has voted to approve the Lisbon Treaty in the re-run of the referendum that led to the treaty's rejection last year. In a vote tainted by irregularities and illegalities - such as blatant breaches of Irish referendum rules requiring balanced media coverage and no public money to be used for either side - the result this time was a 67% 'Yes' vote. While it's hard to beli...