21 Comments

• MichaelMcGrath | May 30, 2012, 07:25 AM EDT

  IRELAND IS STILL SPENDING FOUR BILLION EURO A YEAR ON MASS IMMIGRATION - and will continue to do so until the country really goes bust and your public service salary or welfare can't be paid any more! Vote NO tomorrow to bring a halt to this and to all the other fantastical policies that this government and the last government spent and spends upon still. They are admitting into the country hundreds of thousands of non-EU citizens that they are not obliged to allow in. When you take on an immigrant you take him on for life, his health, welfare, education and housing, and his family's too, and there are more millions massing in darkest Africa and far-off Asia to come here for welfare alone, not to work, not for a job, but for welfare alone for the rest of their lives - and we have a government minister here, Alan Shatter , waiting impatiently to make Irish citizens of them all and other ministers waiting to pay them billions upon billions for the rest of their lives. There is no end to this magnificent largesse and while their is no end to it Ireland will continue to flop and fail. This is why a NO vote tomorrow is necessary, indeed essential, to show that we do not intend to starve to feed masses of immigrants and pay them on top of that, bringing them in here to do nothing. It's madness, it's economic suicide, it must stop, VOTE NO:-)

• VonLiebenitz | Apr 30, 2012, 05:41 PM EDT

  The middle class Bulwark that has been holding this country back for the last 50 years needs to be dealt with.Apparently they have money to burn tp keep the status quo.They arent the ones suffering.Despite the claims of the media.They,ll find someway to send Josh and Eric to colledge so that they can hold on to their privledged position.Meanwhile others are struggling to put food on the table.How much more can you take?If the outcome of a capitalist democracy is a stuffed unmovable middle class inert to any real change then what is the point?

• VonLiebenitz | Apr 30, 2012, 05:35 PM EDT

  Many of the same self deluded morons that voted in a Fine Gael Labour government are voting yes for this.More austerity?Yes sir!Keep the country on it,s knees for the next 20 years?Yes sir!Are you a good EUslave?Yes sir!Do you love Sarkozy?etc

• VonLiebenitz | Apr 30, 2012, 05:30 PM EDT

  Any idiot that votes yes for this pile of trash deserves an unmentionable fate.

• GeorgeDillon | Apr 30, 2012, 03:30 PM EDT

  haasny007 "So the question is: Will Irish voters shoot themselves in the foot?" You sound as if you had shot yourself in the head.

• GeorgeDillon | Apr 30, 2012, 03:28 PM EDT

  Bythebay: "GeorgeDillon, this has nothing to do with Mass Immigration." What an idiot you are. Every vote on the EU is a vote on Mass Immigration. This despite the lies of the Irish ruling class--and their useful (or more accurately, useless) idiots such as you. I was in Ireland maybe 15 years ago when the Irish political parasites were telling the citizens that there would be no wave of Mass Immigration if they voted Yes to one of these EU plebiscites. The Irish voted Yes, and, as I predicted to them, Ireland was swamped by foreigners and changed forever. All to suit a lousy parasitical and treacherous ruling class.

• Travelingman | Apr 30, 2012, 03:25 PM EDT

  You are correct Bythebay...If they do this, than Ireland will never be the same again

• IrelandNorth | Apr 30, 2012, 07:36 AM EDT

  Opinion polls are statistical devices used by political establishments and their press/media class collaborators to predicate to their unthinking masses how to behave in a game called representative democracy. (Any posters on line, unlike me, ever been canvassed?) Opinions polls do not represent public opinions. The represent the opinions your social betters in the political establishment want you, the great unwashed public to have. A two-track European Union (EU) is more compatible for two island nations like Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain. I'm for one foot in EU and the other in an Anglo-American (Commonwealth) Alliance AA(C)A. Geography dictates politics like structure determines function. Ireland has more in common with United States of America and Australia/Canada/NewZealand/UK as anglophone nations than it does with the Towering Babel (TB) that is the EU. Arise George Orwell's Oceania!

• aloistmartin | Apr 29, 2012, 08:09 PM EDT

  The EU was an arguable Consumer Fetish at Best; But now It Is Dead. Let`s move along ~

• Bythebay | Apr 29, 2012, 06:35 PM EDT

  peterson, Ireland is already part of the EU, has been for decades.

• peterson | Apr 29, 2012, 06:28 PM EDT

  Being part of the EU will destroy Ireland's sovereignty and it's uniqueness.

• Curitiba | Apr 29, 2012, 05:10 PM EDT

  Don't forget, folks. Keep voting until you get the "correct" result.

• Curitiba | Apr 29, 2012, 05:09 PM EDT

  Do you really think they will do that George? They love it so much they are willing to leave the country in their tens of thousands to make room for more.

• Bythebay | Apr 29, 2012, 02:14 PM EDT

  GeorgeDillon, this has nothing to do with Mass Immigration. It's an EU Financial Treaty standardizing finances across the European Union. You're like an old 78 record, stuck in one grove and incapable of moving on.

• GeorgeDillon | Apr 29, 2012, 02:08 PM EDT

  This is a good opportunity for Irish people to follow their fellow-Europeans in France, Holland etc. and Vote NO to Mass Immigration!

• Bythebay | Apr 29, 2012, 12:55 PM EDT

  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.

• Bythebay | Apr 29, 2012, 12:51 PM EDT

  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.

• sirpeter | Apr 29, 2012, 12:50 PM EDT

  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.

• Bythebay | Apr 29, 2012, 12:50 PM EDT

  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.

• haasny007 | Apr 29, 2012, 11:17 AM EDT

  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?

• sirpeter | Apr 29, 2012, 10:35 AM EDT

  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.