Opinion poll shows increase in support for Treaty No vote – but it won’t alter outcome

A Yes vote on this will mean Ireland will be forced to give up Corporation Tax rates and standardize with the rest of the EU. Ireland will also be controlled financially from Brussels. Foreign companies, primarily those from the US will no doubt leave if Corporation Tax is raised. The US is also pushing to bring foreign jobs home to the US.

The political parties are again telling people a Yes vote is required for jobs. Of course that's true if more bailout money is needed as well which there is a good possibility it will be.

The strategically smart move here is to vote yes,get our goals achieved and dismantle our own shower of corrupt politicians internally.It is not the right time for a protest vote against the government.

When Ireland was coerced into passing Lisbon 2 in 2009 after having rejected Liston 1 in 2009 it signaled the end of Ireland's autonomy in the European Union. Many people opposed it but fear of more job losses for individuals and families made the majority vote for it. Brian Cowen and Fianna Fail supported it of course because they could then get bailout money from the EU.

This vote does not matter at all - to the EU. A no vote would cut off Ireland from EU bail-out fund (ESFS). So the question is: Will Irish voters shoot themselves in the foot?

This is the most difficult decision ever put to the Irish people.The Irish people are making a very important fundamental decision on fiscal union with the EU while in a position of fear.This is not democracy.This is coercion.Downright coercion.Democracy is a joke!!One of those quaint ideas,like the notion that a state would be governed according to the interests of the citizens.It's staring us in the face that didn't happen.I'd be inclined to vote no if the perpetrators of our economic crisis were punished and a good few behind bars.But they are not.Overall fiscal union might be the best rocky road to take.Negotiate our debt from the inside down the road.A no vote would most certainly lead to extreme cuts,soaring prices,higher unemployment and maybe violence on a large scale.I don't fancy the rioting pastimes of our mad northern brethren either.