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Why do we listen to lies from people who are lying about the Lisbon Treaty?

The Midlands Gateway Chamber has called on the business community in the Midlands to vote yes in the upcoming Lisbon referendum.

Mullingar for Europe, a new independent group of Mullingar people committed to promoting a yes vote in the forthcoming referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, has been launched in Mullingar. The launch event heard strong endorsements for ratification of the Treaty from former Leinster and Ireland rugby international Denis Hickie, businessman Pat Davitt, and professor Ciarán Ó Catháin.

Irish neutrality will be protected and copperfastened by a Yes vote to Lisbon. Irish neutrality will be seriously undermined by a treaty bristling with military articles, so it is wiser to vote No.

Without the EU, the M6 motorway running past Athenry, its local road infrastructure, and the western rail corridor connecting Athenry to Limerick would “never have got off the ground”.

Westmeath County Council went painlessly through its own Lisbon-like mini-trauma last week with its simple adoption of the highly uninteresting draft strategic policy committee (SPC) scheme operational guidelines.

Coir has come under the spotlight in recent weeks as a result of their posters which campaign for a No vote in the upcoming Lisbon referendum. The posters inform the general public about halving of the Irish voting power in Europe, the fact that most Europeans would vote against the treaty if they got the chance, and the threat of small farmers’ livelihoods.

“Lisbon will worsen the economic crisis both in Ireland and throughout Europe” according to Sinn Fein Councillor Rose Conway-Walsh. “The threat to our economy is not in a rejection of Lisbon. It is in the ongoing privatisation policies of the government and the failure to properly invest in education, health, childcare, research and development and broadband.” Rectifying these failures will be all the more difficult if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, the councillor claims.

Mayo Fianna Fáil TD and Minister Dara Calleary, has said that the Lisbon Treaty is vital to maintaining and creating jobs in rural Ireland.

If you want to vote Yes, or are looking for information as to why you might consider voting Yes, then instead of enduring a lecture from one of those boring Yes campaigners, try Nick McGinley.