Polls have opened in Ireland in their referendum on adoption of the re-named EU Constitution.Ireland is the only country to be getting a vote on the Lisbon treaty - the requirements of their Constitution not allowing the Irish government to deny the people a say on further transfers of power to EU institutions, as has happened in every other EU country.Opinion surveys have shown the 'Yes' and 'No'...

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

I hadn't planned to return to the subject of Ireland's referendum. There seemed nothing more to say. I'm sticking to my prediction that there won't be a second referendum on the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty (though there may be a vote on some bits of it, once the bulk has been rammed through the Oireachtas). Nothing else has altered. The "rough rug-headed kerns" are no l...

You may have missed it, but the Czech Senate voted this week to approve the EU Lisbon treaty. (Remember the Lisbon Treaty? It's the one that replaced the proposed EU constitution, the one to which the French and the Dutch said No.) That leaves Ireland as the only one of the 27 member states still holding out. (Well, to be strictly accurate, both the Czech Republic and Poland still need presid...

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

Let's keep this simple. Either the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty will be modified or it won't. Either there will be new provisions on the number of MEPs, the right of each country to a Commissioner, defence, abortion and taxation; or it will be the same treaty. If it's the same treaty, Ireland is being made to vote twice on an identical text which, quite apart from being humil...

Tomorrow voters in Ireland will have their say on the EU's Lisbon Treaty. Ireland is the only European Union member state to have a public vote on the matter, yet a ‘no' from Ireland would bring a definitive end to the years of negotiation. This is what came out of the failure of the constitution.

While the UK tries to make sense of David Davis's idiotic, futile yet quintessentially self motivated gesture, Ireland has been taking a far more important decision on whether to accept or reject the Lisbon Treaty. Ireland is the only EU country to subject the Treaty to a referendum and results so far suggest a victory for the 'No' camp by 53-47%; quite a turn up considering the only important par...

The Irish Government looks set to agree to hold a second referendum on the stalled Lisbon Treaty, it emerged today.

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).