Likely 'Yes' vote from Irish on EU fiscal treaty - polls show nation is in favor

Bythebay.You're a terrific bore.Bet you didn't even go out and vote.You're to busy spamming this place.

seanomelbourne, you're not part of any we, you're a subject of Her Majesty in Australia, you have no vote in this and what happens doesn't effect you. You left Ireland decades ago. You're an Aussie.

Taoiseach (head of Government Ireland). Prime Minister - United Kingdom, not Irealnd. TD member of the Dáil Éireann, lower house of the Oireachtas. Parliament - United Kingdom.

Polls couldn't show 'nation' (sic) in favour, since they haven't been conducted nationwide, no more than the referendum is being conducted so. (I trust Mr Clancey's grasp of politics is better than that of his geography?) Isn't it peculiar that the current Irish Government needs to be budgetarily babysat by Nanny Merkel instead of imposing its own budgetary discipline. Q. Who'se really governing Ireland? If polls predict a 20% majority in favour of this Brussels Austerity Treaty, does that not mean it can only be implemented to like extent? Good weather may distract rather than compliment turnout. (People may be more interested in working on their tans than exercising their franchise.) Ireland is the only country in the EU with a vote on this as yet unfinalised treaty. The yes side want us to sign a blank cheque for Frau Merkel. PS Polls do not represent public opinion, but the opinion the political establishment want the public to have.

A no vote would send a message to the EU that we are not their drones and accept every law they try to impose on us. The Irish government is on the nose with the majority and a no vote would also inform them how fragile their grip on power is.

The temperature reached 28oC in ireland last week. Most polls show 51% YES 49% NO. Lets hope the NO camp win.

More like IC knows how corrupt the voting system is.........A voting system that is too predictable is not a voting system at all.

I very much doubt that the Irish are actually in favour of this treaty. I for one certainly am not in favour of it. For one thing, the Irish people are, once again, being asked to vote on something for which they have been provided with very little information. I have a few reasons for voting no, but I would definitely not vote yes to something I knew nothing about. Why, then, does it look like the Irish will vote yes? Because this whole thing is a farce - we know that if we don't vote yes this time, the government will just send us back to the polls again and again until they get the "right" answer...just like Lisbon and Nice...