Comment: Irish not ready to give up our rights

Ireland throws off the yoke of European imperialism to reject the Lisbon Treaty.

So what now? One and a half million Irish votes have decided the constitutional future of Europe’s 500 million.

Seven years of constitutional nights, burning the midnight oil, have gone down the drain in a 15-hour poll.

Who, you might ask, designed this sort of democratic structure? Perhaps it’s best to say, just for a change, the politicians lost and ...