Horns are beginning to lock with respect to the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty or EU Reform Treaty as the Government seems to be calling it.
No definite date has yet been fixed for the referendum. It does appear it could be a most contentious poll.
Some right wing Catholic newspapers are already calling - even shouting - for a 'No' vote. Why? The European Union has brought extraordinary prosperity to Ireland and has created a war-free zone across Europe. People living in Europe who are now in their 50s are the first generation of Europeans in many decades who have not had to go to war. Ireland is far less insular. Students take it for granted that they will be spending a year of their studies in another EU state.
The EU has been great for Ireland. Not just in economic terms, also socially and culturally and spiritually too. So why is it that 'right wing' Catholics appear to be so opposed to so much of what the EU is about.
Surely the consensus of a large group of people from various cultures and backgrounds is good for the body politic. Maidens dancing at the cross roads was always pie-in-the-sky. It really was a spoof. The men in mohair suits took advantage of it - what else could they have done with the idea?
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Try telling that to the Dev revisionists!
This blog is positively the most clerical and arrogant blog on the entire internet! What a hypocrite.
It is policy not to publish anonymous comment. But comment is being published. Readers may wish to reply. It might make sense if the author submitted his or her name.
Please explain why clerical and arrogant.
And where is the hypocrisy. Please explain.
Clerical and arrogant? Hypocrite? Who, me?
Anonymity is most unhelpful. It's not my first time to experience it in the last 12 months. A pity.
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