Posted in Lisbon Treaty on Sep 3rd, 2009 3 Comments »
The problem with the various campaigns around the Lisbon Treaty is that in order to get a simple message across to a wide audience you have to reduce a complicated topic to a simple black and white argument. However, simplification does not mean basic distortion, like using a dodgy doctored photo originally used by a […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty on Aug 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
You don’t have to be a millenarianist to assume that, if the majority of Irish voters say No to Lisbon a second time, the apocalypse won’t be far behind.
Today in the Irish Times we had two associations of a No vote for Lisbon with murder and suicide. The first was a very convoluted suggestion […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty, politics/Ireland on Sep 11th, 2008 10 Comments »
Of course that is not how the reports on the Government survey into the Lisbon vote published yesterday put it of course, but that is what we can conclude from this Irish Times article, which is an accurate summary of the Millward Brown IMS research:
The research confirmed that the biggest No vote came from […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty, Media on Jul 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
There was a lot of noise generated last week about the Lisbon situation when the Irish Times reported Nicolas Sarkozy’s comments during a private meeting with colleagues in his UMP party. The comments, reported by party members to journalists outside the meeting suggested, non, insisted that Ireland would have to have a second referendum.
This […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty on Jun 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
Cowen was furious about the Lisbon downfall.
Update: As mentioned in the Irish Times on Saturday. Groan, the Irish Times is so up-to-minute, what with offering their content free online today and all. Imagine that, newspaper content free online? They’re well ahead of the pack there.
Sarcasm aside the new design is good from what […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty, satire, France on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
DISCLAMER : A week old post I couldn’t finish/put up due to dodgy French wiring having frazzled my ADSL modem - whenever will they let those competent Polish electricians in ??
The virulence of visual satire on the continent, or at least on the Latin part of it, has already come up on this blog. Being […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty on Jun 25th, 2008 18 Comments »
Irish No voters have really ticked Fintan O’Toole off(sub req). Perhaps this is a good thing, as his columns are generally jaded and stuffy affairs, with overtones of the fatherly lecture, which is given while he cleans out his pipe by the fireplace. The No result though has filled him with utter indignation and has […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty, Media on Jun 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
Remember all of that stuff last week about the initial findings of the Eurobarometer report, as reported in the Irish Independent and a day later in the Irish Times and how it was so significantly wrong, especially when compared to the actual Eurobarometer report which was published last Friday?
On the day after the […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty, politics/Ireland, Politics on Jun 22nd, 2008 2 Comments »
“I am not going to force members of my parliament to support Lisbon, and I would not bet 100 crowns on a Czech Yes.”
So said Mirek Topolanek, the Czech Prime Minister at the EU summit meeting.
What’s interesting about the situation in the Czech republic is that, unlike here in the South, the opposition to […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Lisbon Treaty, Irish Times, Irish Society, politics/Ireland, Politics on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Oh my oh my. Last Tuesday the Irish Independent told us that the Irish people voted no because they believed that the treaty could be renegotiated. Today (Saturday), they tell us that it was because of a disastrous ‘yes’ campaign.
What could have changed in the past week?
Well, the report they said was […]
