Yes campaign off to a good start but politicians need to smarten up

THANK God for the website www.irelandforeurope.ie. At last an organisation of people who really want to go out and work for the Lisbon Treaty and they look like they’re going to do it with imagination and a bit of flair.

They’ve hit the ground running and they seem to have the capacity and the leadership ability that was so sorely lacking the last time.

I know there’s been a bit of sneering about the use of celebrities in their campaign, but I have to say I think it’s really refreshing that people like The Edge, Denis Hickie and Robbie Keane are prepared to put their money where their mouths are. There’s nothing in it for them, after all, so the gesture they’re making by lining up publicly on the Yes side has to be a statement of commitment to the wider ideal of Europe and to the importance of Europe in all our lives.