SF to warn Sarkozy against call for second referendum
Friday, 18 July 2008
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Sinn Fein says it will be telling French President Nicolas Sarkozy that Ireland should not be asked to hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Party president Gerry Adams says the Taoiseach should also make this clear to Mr Sarkozy when he visits Ireland for four hours next week.
The French President has reportedly told his party in private that Ireland will have to hold a second referendum, even though he is publicly saying that he will listen to all opinions on his visit next Monday.
However, Mr Adams says a new treaty must be drawn up following Ireland's democratic rejection of Lisbon.
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well said gerry, tel them OTF!
Posted by peter | 21.07.08, 14:36 GMT
Mr Laudon,
"If we don't react, our children shall see the end of our civilization. People should start to understand that Islam wages war on Occident while Occident only knows appeasement."
Very odd to see you siding with Mr Adams. I thought you folk were crusaders against terrorism in all manifestations past or present?
Tricky Nick, Very Tricky Dicky... Odd Odd Mr Laudon?
Posted by Ron Todd | 19.07.08, 12:51 GMT
Lisbon.
Turkey.
Africanisation.
Be aware of Tricky Nick!
BL
Posted by Bernard Laudon | 19.07.08, 12:20 GMT
Irish Friends,
He tricked us on Lisbon.
He is tricking us on Turkey.
He's gonna try to trick you!
Be aware of Tricky Nick!
BL
Posted by Bernard Laudon | 19.07.08, 12:18 GMT
The current round of EU Structural Funds will run from 2007 to 2013. Over this seven year period Ireland will receive more than €375 million in assistance from the European Social Fund.
With match funding, this amount rises to almost €1.36 billion of direct Structural Fund support to activity in the area of employment and human resources development.
So start handing the money back straight away along with the roads built over the last twenty years of course. Dr David Green can return to his island wit the rest of the ex-pats.
It's easy for Gerry. He has a pretty sound job sniping while getting well paid and protected for it by the British establishment he so loathed for so long. At last he has climbed into bed with Thatcher and seems oblivious to the irony of his self's self creeping up on him.
Posted by Ron Todd | 19.07.08, 10:10 GMT
Well said, Gerry Adams. Send him back to France.
Posted by Terry | 18.07.08, 18:11 GMT
I'm an Ulster unionist living in Athens and I totally agree with Gerry Adams. Sarkozy reminds me of the Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland". He was in Athens recently buttering the MPs up and selling them redundant frigates at the same time. He says he totally agrees with Greece's foreign policy and yet he opposes Turkey's entry into the EU which is the core of Greek foreign policy at present. He also failed to mention that French farmers take more money from the EU than Greece and Ireland put together. The Lisbon Treaty needs to be re-drafted, reduced to 2-3 pages and put to a pan-EU referendm. Sarkozy also forgets that his own electorate voted against it. Let's hope Dublin gives him a right royal welcome - with a shillelagh!!
Posted by Dr David Green | 18.07.08, 15:55 GMT
While Gordan Brown has the Queen signing UK's consent without citizens being given a say!
Posted by Boutya | 18.07.08, 15:37 GMT
Well done Adams. Tell him to get lost
Posted by Alan | 18.07.08, 14:57 GMT
What part of No don't they understand?
Posted by Jack Cade | 18.07.08, 14:22 GMT