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If public servants continue to make statements and devise policies which expose the EU to ridicule, there is very little prospect that a second Lisbon referendum could be won.

It has been confirmed that Kilkenny Fine Gael Senator John Paul Phelan is to run in the European elections this June.

The west of Ireland is still being neglected for major infrastructural development and the region’s MEPs are out of touch with the people on European issues, so new voices and new thinking is needed.

The 110 workers losing their jobs at Thermo King in Galway and the sheep farmers picketing outside the Department of Agriculture would be much more concerned with their future economic circumstances than with a possible second Lisbon Referendum.

An Taoiseach Brian Cowen is an embattled man. He leads a fiercely unpopular Government, which expects a kicking in tomorrow’s election, and is presiding over the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. Yet he is confident that on the economy he is “doing the right thing” that will lead to Ireland’s recovery.

There has been cross-party support this week for the publication of the report of the Oireachtas sub-committee on Ireland’s future in the EU.

Liam Aylward, Fianna Fáil MEP for the East constituency, has said that the legal guarantees agreed by EU leaders for Ireland attached to the Lisbon Treaty do protect key policy issues for Ireland.

Opening scene of the Oireachtas Report Christmas Special, Minister McGuinness™ is at the front of a snow-covered Leinster House, surrounded by carol singers, ISME, IBEC, and the Public Sector Unions. He sings:

Dear Editor,

Green Party TD for Carlow/Kilkenny Mary White has welcomed the decision by her party’s membership at the weekend to campaign for a ‘yes’ vote during the forthcoming referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.