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White urges people to vote ‘Yes’ today
Green Party TD for Carlow/Kilkenny Mary White has called on the people of Kilkenny to vote ‘Yes’ in todays referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
The ball is in the Yes campaign’s court
The American columnist and wit Franklin P Adams noted that elections are won “chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody”.
Midlands Gateway Chamber calls for a yes vote for Lisbon
The Midlands Gateway Chamber has called on the business community in the Midlands to vote yes in the upcoming Lisbon referendum.
Michael D calls on Galway to vote Yes
If Ireland votes Yes to Lisbon, the door is opened to a more social EU that defends workers’ rights, but also Ireland’s right to its own laws on taxes, abortion, and defence remain intact and cannot be interfered with.
Ireland has nothing to fear by voting No says Catherine Connolly
Lisbon is not a remedy for Ireland’s economic ills or the way towards a more social Europe. It will simply take the EU further down the road of militarisation and “give away almost all of Ireland’s sovereign power”.
Why I am voting No to Lisbon – Labour’s Cllr Colette Connolly
Firstly, the Lisbon Treaty we are being asked to vote on is exactly the same treaty the Irish electorate rejected in 2008 and also the Dutch and the French in 2005. The Lisbon Treaty is so called because of the failure to gain agreement to name it a European Constitution, hence the word treaty. Why is it before us again?
