President signs Lisbon Treaty Bill

President Mary McAleese has signed the Bill of the Lisbon Treaty, making the Yes vote in the referendum legally binding.

Two weeks ago 67% of people voted in favour of the EU reform deal.

Campaigners for a No vote claimed the massive swing behind the Treaty was down to a threat of further isolation from the union that would plunge the country deeper into economic crisis.

The Bill was signed at Aras an Uachtarain, the President’s official residence in Dublin, yesterday evening after she returned from a State visit to Luxembourg.

A statement from her office said: “President McAleese has signed the Twenty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty of Lisbon) Bill 2009 in accordance with Article 46 of the Constitution.”