Political parties for and against the Lisbon Treaty will intensify their respective campaigns today as the countdown to the next Referendum day continues.

NEXT Friday we will vote on the Lisbon Treaty. It will be by far the most important vote any of us will cast in very many years if not decades.

Sinn Féin has launched its poster campaign calling for a 'No' vote in the re-run of the Lisbon Treaty referendum.

RTÉ radio is to be commended for their investigative piece on the anti-Lisbon group Cóir last Sunday (September 6).

I FIND it highly irresponsible that Cóir should deliberately try to derail an informed debate on the Lisbon Treaty.

THE Lisbon treaty does not directly affect the minimum wage of workers in Ireland, the Referendum Commission said yesterday.

Chambers Ireland today called on the Referendum Commission to clarify the validity of anti-Lisbon groupr Cóir’s contention that the minimum wage will fall to €1.84 should the Lisbon Treaty referendum be passed.

Campaigners for the Lisbon Treaty today launched a new website which they claim detects lies about the charter.

ANTI-LISBON treaty group Coir’s poster campaign was condemned by Minster for European Affairs Dick Roche, who said the group was “trading on mis-truths and misrepresentation of people’s fears”.

An umbrella group of more than 50 business and professional organisations said today said that the claim from anti-Lisbon group Coir that the treaty will result in the minimum wage being reduced to €1.84 per hour was without foundation and an insult to the intelligence of voters.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs is accusing several anti-Lisbon groups of running cynical campaigns to distort debate on the Lisbon Treaty.

YOUR report headlined ‘Tears and tantrums at Lisbon hearings” (November 21) did less than justice to Cóir and to those who had misgivings about the Lisbon Treaty and voted no.

TEARS, tantrums, treason and a dramatic walkout all featured in the second last day of meetings for the Dáil committee charged with finding a solution to the Lisbon treaty dilemma.

THOSE who are concerned with the absence of ‘Christian values’ in the Lisbon Treaty would do well to remember that Hitler and his Nazis were purported Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, while the Czar of Russia, deposed in the revolution of 1917, was another whose ‘Christianity’ did little to benefit the serfs.

I REFER to the suggestions by Richard Greene of Cóir (June 19) towards solving the Lisbon Treaty situation.

IT should have been Brian Cowen’s big day, but as he emerged onto the steps of Government Buildings he looked for all the world like a bewildered groom jilted by the electorate he thought he knew so well.

THE primacy of EU law has been given as a reason for voting against the Lisbon Treaty.

The Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has been challenged over his knowledge of the Lisbon Treaty by No campaigners in Dublin, as tensions rise in the run up to polling day.

THE three chimpanzees have been peering down at me lately from various lampposts. Very cute they are too, placed there courtesy of Dublin-based group Cóir, which claims a membership of 2,000 people. But the Captive Animals Protection Society is not very happy.