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[maeritrae]

Quick recap for those of you outside Ireland/the EU: Ireland's constitution insists that before it signs up to any binding treaties, a referendum must be held allowing the population to veto it. The Nice treaty and the Lisbon treaty were both designed to form a sort of EU constitution, and all of the other member states' governments agreed to them

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[oduinn]

Morning Ireland had somebody from some "Workers' Coalition Party" or something (I don't think it was literally the Worker's Coalition Party). They asked him about the Coir posters all over Dublin. They guy went "Oh no, those are all lies. Those are just made up rubbish. We don't have anything to do with those people; we have real issues with the treaty."

It was really awesome.