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Protests greet Sarkozy on Irish EU treaty visit
Andras Gergely and Paul Hoskins
Reuters
Monday, July 21, 2008
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Hundreds of protestors greeted French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Dublin on Monday, voicing both anger at his views on Ireland’s rejection of the EU reform treaty and support for his tough stance on world trade talks.
Sarkozy says he will use his visit to “listen and understand” after Irish voters rejected the bloc’s plans for institutional reform in a referendum last month.
Protestors, dismayed by Sarkozy’s comment last week that the Irish would have to vote again, chanted “no means no” as he arrived for talks with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen.
“There is no going back on this, unless they don’t want to accept the democratic vote, which is absolute tyranny,” said 55 year-old Patrick Walsh, wearing a sandwich board bearing a picture of Sarkozy and the words “no and no again”.
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The treaty is a replacement for the EU constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005 and the culmination of eight years of diplomatic wrangling but it cannot come into force until it has been ratified by all member states
Ailbhe MacThomais, a 42 year-old IT engineer, said the EU could not demand a second vote just because it did not like the result of the first one.
“Not accepting the Irish vote or not accepting the Dutch or French vote is bringing back empires,” said MacThomais. “They don’t accept any other viewpoint except their own.”
Sarkozy, whose country holds the EU’s rotating six-month presidency, was also met by fishermen who gave away free fish to highlight their anger over high fuel prices and EU quotas.
“STRAIGHT TALKING”
Sarkozy’s recent criticism of EU trade chief Peter Mandelson for giving away too many farm concessions in world trade talks won support from farmers however.
“Under no circumstances will we accept what Peter Mandelson has offered,” said 52-year-old dairy farmer Frank Byrne. “We’d look to France for our biggest ally in Europe.”
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) took out full page adverts in newspapers on Monday, reminding Cowen he had pledged to veto an unacceptable world trade organisation (WTO) deal.
“If the WTO deal on the table this week were to go through, it would profoundly damage support in rural Ireland for a future Lisbon (treaty) referendum,” IFA President Padraig Walshe said.
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July 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
tar and feather the bastard!
July 21st, 2008 at 3:05 pm
The time is here for people to do what the Irish have done, and reject the nwo in any way they can. I am proud of the Irish people, and only wish that I could help them out. I for one would like to see a free and united Ireland, like the one that the RIRA have been fighting for.
July 21st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
what no diebold in Ireland
July 21st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Well I like many people in ireland decided to vote yes. The problem was that the treaty was written in language difficult to fully understand for anyone not with legal training. It was therefore open to all sorts of interpretation, some of it wild, when it went to public referendum. One particular party to emerge to the forefront of the No campain was Libertas who allegedly received funding from US Neocons. Enough reason to swing my vote!
See article on Libertas:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87311
July 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
The problem was the treaty was a death sentence which is why it was made difficult to understand… soft lad.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
NWO — merely a knock away…
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July 21st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Irish lad go here
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July 21st, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Looks like ireland is going to be part of the axis of evil ….
didnt they also vote to wipe irsael off the map and vow to make nuclear weapons.????
im getting mixed up here…
or does it matter..?
July 21st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I am so happy that there are men with balls in the world, I thought they had all disappeared. I think I want to move to Ireland. I’m not even Irish but I feel so proud that they all had the balls to say NO and No again. I guess all our Greek men started wearing dresses. (New found respect for Ireland here.)
July 21st, 2008 at 7:41 pm
irish lad…………You are the NeoCon, it’s not difficult to understand you’re signing away your freedom, you don’t need to be a lawyer for that. Amazing !!!!!!!
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:35 am
Irish Lad. Libertas funded by NeoCons as phoney opposition to try and divert people’s attention from the real issues. That the EU constitution/treat, however it’s dressed is just a rejigged Marx’ zionist funded communist manifesto. Well if we make the peasants think they’ve got a good deal now, in this generation, they’ll buy anything. And then death to the future of our genes. Would the last “consumer” off the planet please turn out the lights.
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:51 am
I have yet to see a modicum of proof for this so called cia/neocon financing of Declan Ganley. I would hope most people here in Ireland are slightly more intelegent than the idiots who push these rumours, well at least 54% of us…