FF ‘out to nail Cóir lie’ over wages

FALSE claims by anti-Lisbon campaigners regarding the lowering of the minimum wage in Ireland will sway voters if they are not countered strongly, according to Fianna Fáil.

Addressing his party colleagues on the Lisbon campaign at the party’s think-in yesterday, Foreign Affairs Minister Mícheál Martin said he had received reports that the controversial Cóir posters – which suggest the minimum wage will drop to €1.84 under the Lisbon Treaty – were getting a reaction.

“We have work to do in terms of exposing the fact that this is basically not true,” he said, before adding that the party would “go all out to make sure that lie is nailed”.