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A cloud with no silver lining
13.06.2008 23:26
ireland.com
The people have spoken loudly and rejected the Lisbon Treaty for any number of reasons difficult to define inside or outside these shores. They have delivered a shock of cataclysmic proportions to the political establishment at home and to the governments and peoples in the 26 other member states across the European Union. The result catapults Ireland into the epicentre of a new crisis for the EU and its future.
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Hard landing
13.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
IT IS now clear that the economy is heading for a hard landing after the years of boom and bloom. Statistics charting current economic performance all point to a slump in domestic activity that has materialised very swiftly.
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Humiliated Government must try to clear up mess
13.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
INSIDE POLITICS: For the new Taoiseach Brian Cowen the Lisbon Treaty poll result is an unmitigated disaster, writes Stephen Collins
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We will face pressure to accept bilateral treaty deal
13.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
WORLD VIEW: Member states will not lightly give up equally valid parliamentary ratifications, writes Paul Gillespie
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Deeper look at poll illuminates complex reasons for result
13.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
LISBON OUTCOME: DESPITE WIDESPREAD support among the Irish public for Ireland's membership of the European Union and even more widespread appreciation of the benefits that have accrued to Ireland from that membership, on Friday 13th of June, 2008 it emerged that the Irish electorate, or more precisely, the 53 per cent of the electorate that voted, had rejected the Treaty of Lisbon (by 53.4 to 46.6) just as they had done in 2001 to the Treaty of Nice. Why?
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The people have spoken - and they are not loo-lahs
13.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
It is time for politicians to consider an entirely different model of European co-operation, writes Breda O'Brien
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Result reveals audience for euroscepticism
13.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
Campaign shows support base for a new party - will Libertas make a political play? asks Noel Whelan
Ireland
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A good start would have been half the work for Yes campaign
13.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
In delaying its campaign the Government ignored the lessons of the first Nice Treaty referendum, writes Garret FitzGerald
Ireland
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THIS WEEK THEY SAID
13.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
After 35 years of respecting and helping Ireland, the EU has earned the right not to be seen as a threat to us. - Taoiseach Brian Cowen, ahead of the Lisbon Treaty vote.
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An Irishman's Diary
13.06.2008 23:25
ireland.com
"Police at Stormont" could be a headline from the bad old days in the North. But the story instead refers to an English "pop group" scheduled to play "live" in the grounds of Belfast's parliamentary buildings on June 20th, writes Michael Parsons
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Win puts Dutch at heart of Europe
13.06.2008 23:24
ireland.com
SOCCER NETHERLANDS 4 FRANCE 1: HOW FITTING Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty should be marked by a game between the two countries that voted down the constitution it replaced three years ago.
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Sports
Harrington gets back in contention
13.06.2008 23:24
ireland.com
GOLF US OPEN: FRIDAY THE 13th how are ye? On Thursday evening, Pádraig Harrington finished signing for a 78 in the first round of the US Open here at Torrey Pines and went against his normal inclination to at least hit a few putts to
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Last hurrah unlikely to end in cheers
13.06.2008 23:24
ireland.com
RUGBY AUSTRALIA v IRELAND: ONE LAST hurrah then to a Test season that, in many respects, cannot end soon enough. Ending it all with a prized away scalp on Southern Hemisphere soil for the first time in 29 years would at least put a decidedly non-vintage '07-08 to bed with a little redemption.
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Mutu miss lets Italy off the hook
13.06.2008 23:24
ireland.com
GROUP C ITALY V ROMANIA: ITALY ARE still in there, but only just. Were it not for a splendid 80th-minute penalty save by goalkeeper Gigi Buffon, the frustrated Italians would be out of Euro 2008.
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Lack of goals not stressing Italian coach
13.06.2008 23:24
ireland.com
ITALY COACH Roberto Donadoni said he was untroubled by his forwards again failing to find the net yesterday's 1-1 draw with Romania in Group C.
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