Article: Ratifying Lisbon in the Dail is radical. Its also disenfranchising The R?n?n Mullen COLUMN.(Column)

LAST month, as the results of the Lisbon Treaty referendum were coming in, RT?s Europe correspondent Se?n Whelan and veteran Danish politician Jens-Peter Bonde were discussing the impact of a possible No vote.

Mr Whelan fretted that a No vote would plunge Europe into a period of intensely anti-Irish feeling. He recalled that, at the first EU summit meeting after France had voted No to the European Constitution, the reception for Frances then-president, Jacques Chirac, was very cool. This was an ominous portent of what was in store for Ireland.

In response, Mr Bonde suggested that a No vote might actually prompt a more positive attitude towards Ireland. He claimed that ...

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