The topic may not dominate or even feature at the more glittering dinner parties in Ireland this weekend but the momentum building behind Britain’s Eurosceptic Tories about an in-or-out EU vote deserves, from a purely selfish Irish view, some serious consideration.

UKIP election candidate Nigel Farage was pulled from the mangled wreckage of a plane with only minor injuries yesterday after an airborne stunt went dramatically wrong.

HAVE the Brits finally become European, a discussion paper by the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank asked last week?

THE leader of the British eurosceptics in the European Parliament has refused to apologise for calling the EU president a “low grade bank clerk” and has been fined almost €3,000.

A BRITISH MEP is to be reprimanded by the president of the European Parliament after shouting insults at Herman Van Rompuy, the man who represents the EU leaders.

The Irish electorate put their country ahead of anger at the Government in backing the Lisbon Treaty, it was claimed today.

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.

FOREIGN Affairs minister Micheál Martin has warned householders to prepare for the most cynically negative campaign in the country’s history.

THE number of candidates who won seats to the European Parliament and oppose the EU and the Lisbon treaty has increased.

LAST Monday evening the leader of the Libertas group, Declan Ganley, was the celebrated guest of right-wing British Tories at Westminster.

IRELAND’S rejection of the Lisbon treaty was not a rejection of Europe, said Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

Axed talkshow host Robert Kilroy-Silk is to stand as a Euro MP for the United Kingdom Independence Party in next month’s elections, the party said today.