The launch was accompanied by an energetic canvass on Patrick Street right at the heart of the city centre, and activists held placards urging a 'No' vote.A new set of billboards was launched by the four Sinn Féin city Cllr's including former Ógra members Cllr Jonathan O'Brien and Cllr Fíona Kerins,
The contingent then travelled to Ballincollig where Ógra helped Gerry Adams canvass near the shopping centre, where he took the time to chat to local young people on their lunch break.
Ógra activist Alan Conway had the following to say 'Cork Ógra will be actively campaigning for a no vote on the coming weeks, this is the exact same treaty, and it is exactly as harmful to democracy, workers rights, neutrality and family farms as it was first time around. We hope to persuade yong people that they have to vote in their own interests, and their interests are best served by a no vote'
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Ireland has NO Reason to Fear the Consequences of a NO vote on Lisbon (WSJ)
According to a September 16, 2009, article in the Wall Street Journal, Ireland has no reason to fear the consequences of a No vote on Lisbon. Excerpts from the article follow:
"It is a measure of the desperation of the supporters of the treaty that they have resorted to patent absurdities in their efforts to secure a Yes vote from the Irish people the second time around. Last Friday, Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan told a press conference that "a 'No' vote will signal to the rest of the world that Ireland has retreated into economic isolation." It should hardly need stating that Mr. Lenihan is peddling phantom terrors to scare the Irish people into voting Yes. But in a world made skittish by last year's global credit panic, it's just possible that someone might, at least in the absence of thought, take them seriously. Preying on those fears, in fact, seems to be the chief strategy of the Yes campaign."
"Ireland cannot and will not be kicked out of Euroland for voting down a treaty that, for all practical purposes, has already been rejected by the voters of France and the Netherlands, and would likely have met the same fate elsewhere if voters had been given a say."
"It is up to the people of Ireland to decide for themselves how to vote come Oct. 2. We will not join the chorus of those who claim to know what's best for them. But it is regrettable that they are, once more, being forced to vote again, as if their first answer has been disallowed."
"The days of the Celtic Tiger are gone for the moment, but they have given Ireland an economic base on which to build that is in no way dependent on the benediction of Brussels bureaucrats. Quite the reverse: Brussels always treated Ireland's fantastically successful tax policies with rank suspicion, accusing it throughout its boom years of "tax dumping" and "unfair tax competition." There are plenty of governments on the Continent, not least France's, that would love to rein in Ireland's ability to attract investment through supply-side tax policy. Handing Brussels greater potential power to influence Irish tax policy would be tantamount to surrendering the keys to Irish prosperity to Brussels for all time."
So, is Mr. Lenihan "peddling phantom terrors" to deceive the people of Ireland? You be the judge.
(I first read this on blog.antilisbontreaty.com before reading the entire article on the online WSJ)
Our Government keeps telling various media outlets that they are not contemplating a no vote and that there is no plan for a no vote. I guess this means that a no vote will be answered with another referendum.
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