Yes vote a sign democracy is key to euro crisis

Having some time on my hands last week I was flicking between those TV channels that specialise in finance and economics.

The morning after our treaty vote, it was being discussed by a panel on one station.

One academic could hardly contain his sneering about Ireland’s irrelevance in Europe and argued a yes or no vote did not matter. The presenters were equally dismissive. I was about to put my boot through the TV screen at this point.