Today, the Lisbon Treaty will once and for all be decided from an Irish point of view. Regardless of the importance of this vote or indeed the potential consequences whatever the outcome may be, the important issues have once again been overshadowed by the haemorrhaging of inaccurate opinions and political sales-pitches.
We were denied a proper discourse based on the facts. Both sides were guilty of misrepresentation and scare-mongering and have attempted to influence the Irish public with nothing more than veiled threats. The debate, if it can even be called that, deteriorated into a personalised tit-for-tat series of attacks.
The entire referendum, due to this state of affairs, has been an insult to any Irish person who was willing to engage in the process and base their decision on issues of substance. Regardless of outcome, the only positive I can see is that today marks the end…or does it?
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