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THERE would be a thin crackle, and magic would follow. When the needle and record touched, the sound was like lightning, like Marty and Doc Brown disappearing into the past, their Delorean vanishing in a sharp crack. 

Pro-independence parties pushing for Catalonia to break away and form a new Mediterranean nation have won a landmark vote by capturing a regional Spanish parliamentary majority – setting up a possible showdown with the government in Madrid.

Tourism Ireland have launched a campaign targeting the LGBT community around the world for weddings and honeymoons in Ireland.

Three new opinion polls show a commanding lead for the Yes campaign in the same sex marriage referendum, though the No side is closing the gap.

Allowing same-sex couples to marry will not impact on adoption laws or redefine marriage, the independent chairperson of the Referendum Commission said.

Six sites have been shortlisted as possible locations for a €300m hospital in Cork City to facilitate the merger of two of the region’s busiest hospitals.

A campaign has been launched encouraging people to register for their vote ahead of next year’s referendum on civil marriage equality.

HE burst out onto Edinburgh’s Royal Mile from a side street after the results swung against separation, and channelling the words of that little-known unionist Amy Winehouse, loudly sang: "They tried to make me leave the UK, I said: No! No! No!"

"I’m swithering," said a woman outside the parliament building in Edinburgh as she used a local term for swinging backwards and forwards without being able to make a decision to explain where she stood as Scotland’s future hung precariously in the balance.

David Cameron has told Scots that he "won’t be here forever" but a decision to leave the UK would be forever, as he pleaded with voters to reject independence.

The leaders of the three main Westminster parties are today making a last minute trip to Scotland as the fight to keep the United Kingdom together intensifies in the run up to next week’s independence referendum.

Pro-independence campaigners have “10 days of hard work” ahead to win the referendum, according to Scotland’s First Minister.

Scotland would immediately have to contend with a budget deficit of 6.4% if it votes for independence, according to the London- based Centre for Economics and Business Research.

A shock poll has given the 'Yes' camp the lead in the Scottish independence referendum battle for the first time, amid signs of infighting among senior figures backing the union.

Veteran actor Sir Sean Connery is urging Scots to vote in favour of independence, saying it is too good an opportunity to miss.

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A series of opinion polls to be published in tomorrow's newspapers show the Yes side leads the No side in the final phase of the EU fiscal treaty campaign.

For Ireland to recover from ‘horrendous’ debt problems, a significant proportion must be written down, writes Fine Gael TD Peter Mathews

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said that the upcoming referendum on the EU fiscal treaty is more important than a general election.

The first televised debate on the EU fiscal treaty has been dominated by exchanges about where Ireland would get funding when the EU/IMF bailout expires.

FEAR was the major factor in the resounding Yes vote, anti-Lisbon campaigners have claimed.

FINE GAEL and Labour took the gloves off and attacked the Taoiseach just minutes after the result became apparent.

“YOU don’t win a referendum campaign in six weeks,” Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin remarked over the weekend as he discussed the preparations that helped the Yes side win.

BY exploiting economic fears, the Yes side changed tack emphatically in 16 months.

BUSINESS PEOPLE, trade unions and politicians welcomed the Irish referendum vote as a breakthrough for the beleaguered Lisbon Treaty over the weekend, while the European Commission said it will undertake research on just why the Irish changed their minds.

COUNTING in the Lisbon Treaty referendum gets under way this morning with the official result expected to be declared in the late afternoon.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen was today cautiously optimistic of a pro-Lisbon Treaty win as voters took to the polls across the country.

YOUNG people have voted slightly in favour of passing the Lisbon Treaty in anonline poll, but are frustrated with the political process and the debate ahead of tomorrow’s referendum.

SINN FÉIN made a last ditch attempt to warn voters against supporting the Lisbon Treaty yesterday insisting it had been negotiated by an “incompetent government”.

WOMEN have been urged to support the Lisbon referendum by Yes campaigners who said regardless of what is in the text of the treaty their “actions have consequences”.

THE Yes to Lisbon campaign enjoys a 15-point lead in the polls with less than a week left to polling day.

THE Lisbon Treaty “does not undermine existing legal protections in Ireland for unborn children”, the country’s Catholic bishops have said.

IN his letter (July 13), Liam Aylward MEP concluded by advising us “now is the time to embrace the EU. Economically, we would be very foolish to do otherwise”.

A YES vote in next October’s Lisbon treaty referendum is Ireland’s only chance of ensuring it keeps an EU commissioner, the British Foreign Secretary warned.

The first meeting of the inaugural Dáil Committee on the Lisbon Treaty today sparked a row between the Yes and No sides.

One of the country's leading political summer schools has urged French President Nicolas Sarkozy to clear his diary and attend a public debate on the future of Europe.

A second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is the only way for Europe to make progress, a senior French politician said today.

The Yes side secured a rare constituency win today, though it will make little difference to the national trend of No votes.

In a statement made today, Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit Alliance said that with only a few days to go before polling, the public is still being misled by the Yes side and some sections of the media on the most important issues in the Lisbon Treaty.

Kieran Allen, from VoteNo.ie has claimed today that the surge in support for the No side shows that the strategy of the Yes campaign has backfired.

HE hadn’t even started canvassing in Cork city yesterday but it looked as if Enda Kenny’s Yes to Lisbon train could be derailed even before it left the station.

Libertas chairman Declan Ganley has tonight welcomed the results of the latest Red C poll for the Sunday Business Post, which shows the gap between the Yes and No sides of the Lisbon campaign narrowing to 8%.