Tears and tantrums at Lisbon hearings

TEARS, tantrums, treason and a dramatic walkout all featured in the second last day of meetings for the Dáil committee charged with finding a solution to the Lisbon treaty dilemma.

Members of the Oireachtas sub-committee on Ireland’s future in the EU will hold their final meetings today following an intensive six-week programme.

At their second last meeting yesterday, broadcaster Eamon Dunphy suggested there was not enough passion or emotion in the Lisbon debate, but for committee members, the opposite was true.