Sinnott: Lisbon was my downfall

KATHY SINNOTT suggested a campaign had been orchestrated against her following the Lisbon treaty referendum defeat last summer, after losing her seat as an MEP to Labour’s Senator Alan Kelly last night.

She said that someone had approached her in the European Parliament a fortnight after the Irish vote against the treaty, which she had opposed a year ago this week, and said to her that a decision had been made to take her out.

Asked if she felt that might have been something to do with her defeat, after receiving 31,000 fewer first preferences than in 2004, she replied: “Who knows if that had anything to do with it, I don’t know.”