THE executive director of anti-Lisbon campaign group Libertas has departed the organisation.

Opposition parties and anti-Lisbon Treaty groups today rounded on Europe Minister Dick Roche after he claimed a second referendum on the controversial document may be necessary.

FRENCH president Nicolas Sarkozy was accused of being “out of step” with political realities after floating the idea that Ireland and Britain should share a European commissioner.

OPPONENTS of the Lisbon treaty sparked a war of words yesterday after claiming the independence of the Referendum Commission had been thrown into doubt because of alleged links to the yes campaign.

The IFA's last minute U-turn on the Lisbon treaty was "disappointing, but totally to be expected" Libertas executive director Naoise Nunn said this evening.