Miliband: No bulldozing of Irish to change result

THE Irish Government must now decide whether it wants to read the “last rites” over the Lisbon treaty, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said.

There could be no question of “bulldozing or bamboozling” the Irish into overturning the results of the referendum.

Mr Miliband said that Europe’s leaders, who meet later this week to decide how to deal with the fallout, may have to accept that the treaty cannot be implemented and that they will have to carry on under the existing rules.