World / Politics
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.
Ireland
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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.
Ireland
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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
Ireland
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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
Ireland
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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?
Ireland
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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
Ireland
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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.
Ireland
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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
Ireland
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Father's Day - the worst thing American President Richard Nixon did
13.06.2008 20:10
telegraph.co.uk
And, wonders Gill Hornby, what is it that they actually do around the home that merits comparison with a woman's work?
Great Britain
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The Oxford Book of Heath Huffs (Part II)
13.06.2008 20:10
telegraph.co.uk
Since Craig Brown's article on the huffs of Edward Heath, he has received letters from a number of readers, most of them breathtakingly intense in their hatred of him, but one or two recalling acts of personal kindness.
Great Britain
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The cub who won't do his duty
13.06.2008 20:10
telegraph.co.uk
Surely a voluntary organisation like the Scouts can accommodate - to its own advantage and that of all of us - an eight-year-old conscientious objector, writes Sam Leith.
Great Britain
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Cherie Blair and I understand the pain of childbirth
13.06.2008 20:10
telegraph.co.uk
Andrew Pierce has a confession to make. He has something in common with Cherie Blair, but, no, it's not that he shamelessly exploits his family for commercial gain.
Great Britain
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They say milestones, but mean tombstones
13.06.2008 20:10
telegraph.co.uk
It is hard to work out whether anyone in the Government knows what we are doing in Afghanistan, decides Vicki Woods.
Great Britain
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