Thank you for your opinion.

That they are better off than before IS proven, what you are suggesting is nothing but kicking the air.

If it could be proven that, from a purely economic perspective, country x, y, or z is better off now than it was before it joined the EU, but not as well off as it could be, should it decide to seek fifty-first state of the Union status, I wonder if the Schaveigers of this world would making the same argument.
 
http://www.originalsoupman.com/mission.aspx
 

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86337
 
It says:-
By a huge majority (499 to 129) European MEPs, including Labour's Proinsias De Rossa voted against the motion ‘The European Parliament undertakes to respect the outcome of the referendum in Ireland’.

What is the real issue of those who are using rogue methods, like leaking confidential memos, to undermine the constitution of the EU ?
 Instead asking ordinary people to vote on issues they don't understand, should they not ask the Irish people to compare their todays living standards with these before they joined the EU ? 

I have a bad feeling that this highly undemocratic treaty will mark the decline of the west as the global dominant cultural, scientific and economic force.
 
"It added that during a trip to Dublin, [EU Commission] Vice-President Margot Wallstrom ‘had told Dermot Ahern that the commission was willing to tone down or delay messages that might be unhelpful’."
 
I think un-elected "vice-president" Wallstrom should go on a speaking tour of Ireland touting the wonders of the EU.  I am sure this will have the opposite of intended effect.

SID WEINER
     I have been puzzled for sometime & perhaps some kind soul could help me with an answer.
      If the murder of a mother is matricide & the murder of a father is patricide,it follows that killing a stranger is homicide & a king would be regicide.So far this is all very plain & obvious to me.My question is,someone who murders a civilization is called......Tony Blair?

The likes of Tone, Emmet and O' Connell must be spinning in their graves.
 
Epitaph: Easter, 1916 - 29 May 2008 (?).
 
The Irish people should take this opportunity to tell the EUrocrats precisely what they can do ... "pogue ma hone".

Being an American, I ponder the wisdom of the voting people of Ireland. We have our own problems with political spinning "LIES". Maybe it is some what easier to see the toilet over flowing, when you are farther away or in another non involved country, then when yours is the the toilet that is backing-up. We definitely have our basket of concerns. Both, to Americans and to those that our overflows come in contact with. Ireland, has a unique opportunity to have a large loud voice in what may be the last and only peoples ability to have a say in what their governing leaders do. I pray, that they know and are fully aware of the power they have and what the consequences of their choices will make in the rest of their future, as a national free self serving country. There may come a time, that, Ireland may wonder why they are called the people of these "United European Nations". To swear to be a non Irish, to learn and speak, French, German, Spanish and Arabic. Can we, as a free, national people of Ireland, afford to give up all our rights, just to please some foreign multiculturalist ideology. A death to who we are and where we come from. Who we are. Will we give up the right to call ourselves "Irish".