McCreevy ‘up all night’ reading treaty

JUST as things were beginning to look good for the Yes side, along came Charlie.

McCreevy ‘up all night’ reading treaty

Politicians advocating a Yes to Lisbon buried their heads in their hands when they heard our EU commissioner was being unmuzzled and entering the campaign which many feel he messed up last time by declaring no “sane or sensible” person would ever read the treaty.

But when Charlie McCreevy was allowed back on the Lisbon beat yesterday it was clear he had put his own sanity aside to join those he had previously dismissed as having the time for “sitting down and spending hours reading sections about subsections referring to articles about sub-articles”.

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