Irish Election - Coverage of Irish Politics, News and Current Affairs

While I work on a bigger post here’s just a few little facts on how the run-up to the next Lisbon Treaty referendum is played: The Irish government removes legislation that made for equal airtime for both sides of the debate. The Irish government enters into a contract with a PR firm to handle publicity [...]

With the blurb coming from the “yes-camp” and the very regretful stepping back by Declan Ganley (at least he kept his promise) one might think that it is the Irish “No to Lisbon” campaigners against the EU. Fortunately that isn’t true. In the run-up to the recent EU elections I got talking on Twitter with [...]

The Irish political parties seem to be set on advising the Irish people to go begging to the EU to be please “let in”. The number of politicians and public figures who have spoken out recently about the “need to be part of Europe” has multiplied at an astonishing rate. All and sundry seem to [...]

Labour launched their 2nd Lisbon campaign today, making a start to a summer where all and sundry from across the Irish political spectrum will tell us stories on why we should vote yes for this 2nd treaty. And boy will they be stories. We can see concoctions worthy of the greatest Irish Seanachaí and on [...]