Sceptical voters remain to be convinced of Europe’s merits

EVELYN BOYLAN, a working mother of two young children, is fairly typical of an Irish person when it comes to Europe.

“Europe is over there and I didn’t have any view on it really”, said the sales and marketing worker from Scotstown, Co Monaghan. “But I was curious and I decided to check it out.”

Her curiosity took her to Brussels and the European Citizens’ Consultations summit this week having been selected at the Dublin event earlier this year.