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The Lisbon Treaty Campaign in Ireland: a Review

The European Commission’s Eurobarometer report is available (PDF)

Background to the Referendum
On June 12th, 2008, the Irish electorate was presented with the opportunity to vote “yes” or “no” to the Lisbon Treaty. This was the seventh referendum on European integration in Ireland in the last 36 years, so EU referendums are very much part […]

Latest Essays

The Many Faults of Co-Location

The simplistic idea behind co-location - to create extra space for public patients in public hospitals by transferring the... More »

Lisbon and Immigration: Why Ireland Voted No

The category ‘immigrant’ has been systematically substituted for the category ‘worker’, only to be supplanted in its turn by... More »

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Class and Ireland - Part 1

It is not the poverty
Of soil in Leitrim that makes me raise my hat
To fools with fifty pounds in... More »

September 3rd Morning: The Recession Diaries

IBEC’s Turlough O’Sullivan has an unfortunate ideological quirk but it is treatable.  It seems he can’t say the words... More »