Cóir’s anti-treaty stance has been vindicated by succession of events

IT’S refreshing to see Fine Gael’s Lucinda Creighton admit that the Lisbon Treaty was lost in part because voters had concerns about moral and social issues.

The 2,000 Cóir volunteers who spent six months explaining this, and other related concerns, to the electorate are now having their role acknowledged by a succession of events.

In recent times, Cardinal Seán Brady warned that the EU seemed hostile to Catholic values and pointed to this hostility as a factor in the no vote to the Lisbon Treaty.