Tory Euro-sceptics ‘praying’ for Irish No

BRITISH Euro-sceptics are “hoping and praying” for a rejection of the Lisbon Treaty which would allow them to push Ireland to the margins of the EU, it was claimed yesterday.

The North’s SDLP party said the combination of a No vote by the Irish public and the Tories getting into power in Britain after next year’s election, would be “an absolute disaster for the North” and “cost Ireland dearly”.

Party leader Mark Durkan travelled to Dublin yesterday to support the campaign for a Yes vote.