Sinn Féin urges treaty no vote in newsletter blitz

SINN FÉIN is to blitz households with half a million newsletters urging a no vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum.

The party is also planning a series of regional public meetings as part of a campaign it says will be approached “in general election mode”.

Kicking off the campaign in Dublin, MEP Mary Lou McDonald insisted there was no contradiction in being pro-Europe but anti-treaty, and denied the party was a eurosceptic.