Ironic call by Sinn Féin

AM I alone in finding the irony in Sinn Féin’s opposition to ratification of the Nice Treaty?

A party whose primary goal has always been to sever ties between Ireland and Great Britain, now endorses a retreat to the Ireland which was almost wholly dependent on our nearest neighbour for exports in the earlier part of the last century. In 2002, Ireland exports more per capita than any other nation in the world.

Almost 80% of such exports go to the wider European market. Voting No spurns an extra 100 million consumers and risks a reversion to the days when “if Britain sneezed, Ireland caught a cold”.