No regrets at silent treatment over stability treaty: Ó Cuív

On one thing, Fianna Fáil’s Éamon Ó Cuív is certain: That he was right and, as a result, his party leader, Micheál Martin, was wrong on the decision to back the stability treaty referendum earlier this year.

More than six months have passed since the Irish people voted to accept the treaty which would lead to the establishment of the EU’s permanent rescue fund, the ESM.

But, as Mr Ó Cuív points out, the Government has still not secured any agreement from its EU partners on reducing the burden of the country’s bank debt on the Irish state and, by extension, its people.