‘Yes’ campaign continues to dominate press coverage

Ireland's national newspapers are continuing to give greater coverage to supporters of the Lisbon Treaty, according to the latest assessment by TNS.

The company says 46% of Lisbon-related articles in the past week have been in favour of the treaty, down slightly from the 48% figure for the previous week.

The percentage of articles favouring the 'no' campaign fell from 24% to 23%.

The other 31% of articles in the past week were assessed as neutral.

TNS says Declan Ganley's return to the Libertas campaign dominated 68 articles, but didn't do much to detract from the dominance of the 'yes' campaign.

The analysis looked at all the main national daily and Sunday newspapers.