I'm grateful to Denis Cooper for directing me to an article in the Irish Times by its political editor, Stephen Collins.
We know that 71% of the Irish oppose a second referendum and Mr Collins has decided that the people need to be bypassed. He decrees that the Irish parliament, the Dáil, needs to pass all but the most obviously-constitutional aspects of Lisbon in order to return to "the status of a being a client state of Britain".
He concedes that this whole approach has already been dismissed by the Irish Government's lawyers but he calls for "some fancy legal footwork at European level" so that the 'No campaign' - "unhampered by any allegiance to truth" (ouch!) - can be thwarted. At least the 'No campaign' has allegiance to Irish democracy and the rule of law.
