Ireland played a huge role in the EU’s first proper Constitution and its citizens should ratify it in a referendum, it was claimed today.

The Convention on the Future of Europe has finalised a draft charter for the proposed EU constitution.

IRELAND yesterday secured major concessions during negotiations on a new EU constitution.

THE new draft EU constitution, published yesterday, is unacceptable in its current form, the Green Party warned last night.

The chairman of the Convention on the Future of Europe is due to meet the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, in Dublin later today.