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

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).

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

Saturday’s Irish Times reported that the European Commission has intervened in Ireland’s Lisbon Treaty referendum debate to rebuff specific claims of the ‘Farmers For No’ campaign group. The group maintains that a Yes vote in the referendum would jeopardise farm succession rights, remove Ireland’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) veto, and reduce Ireland’s overall...

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...

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 ...

European Voice reports that Commission President José Manuel Barroso and Commission Secretary-General Catherine Day have requested that controversial plans for EU-wide recognition of inheritance claims be put on hold, for fear of negative reactions in Ireland ahead of the second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

The perils of accommodating Ireland. Interesting confirmation of the legal situation in the face of changes to the Lisbon treaty to accommodate Ireland, and pave the way for a second referendum. Austria's chancellor, Alfred Gusenbauer, has said that if any changes are made to the Lisbon Treaty following its rejection by ...

A second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty would "ultimately" be required in Ireland to prevent its isolation now that all other 26 member states appear likely to ratify it, the country's Minister of State for European Affairs Dick Roche said at the weekend.

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