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Fine Gael Mayo TD John O’Mahony has said that a Yes vote in the Stability Treaty Referendum is the only way to guarantee we have access to the ESM, Europe’s new bailout fund. Deputy O’Mahony, added that despite what Sinn Féin and others may claim, the situation has been clarified by the Referendum Commission.

The public is being asked to vote for the Fiscal Treaty on Thursday May 31 on the basis of misinformation and mistruths and fear.

The elections in France, Greece, and Germany, and the growing momentum for economic recovery through stimulus, not austerity, demands that Ireland postpone the May 31 referendum.

The Referendum Commission has launched its public information campaign to explain the Fiscal Stability Treaty and to urge people throughout the State to vote. The Commission chairperson Judge Kevin Feeney said that its factual Guide to the Treaty would be delivered to all homes in Mayo between May 8 and May 18.

Both sides in the EU Fiscal Treaty debate are calling on the Galway public to make sure they are registered to vote on the EU Fiscal Treaty referendum which will be held on May 31.

A number of prominent local and national speakers have been lined up for a public information meeting on tonight (Friday May 4) at 8pm in the Hotel Ballina, Foxford Road, Ballina, on the EU Stability Treaty.

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians,” the former French president Charles De Gaulle once said. Indeed he would have been within his rights to substitute the word ‘dangerous’ for ‘serious’.

The failure of the Government to have the referendum on Oireachtas inquiries passed at last week's Presidential election raises major issues for the coalition parties, according to Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary.

A Galway city councillor has slammed the GoverNment for its “utterly contemptuous” move to hold referendums and expect people to vote today when there has been “next to no debate” on the very serious issues involved.

On Thursday October 27, the same day we will choose our next president, we will also be asked to vote on two referenda which will change the wording of the Constitution.