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		<title>Only one controversy remains. The turnout?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the dust settles on what can only be described as a drubbing for the No  side, only one contention remains. What percentage of the electorate actually voted? According to the official figures, the turnout was 59.0 per cent.
The figures for the total electorate and turnout are based on those submitted by returning officers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/lisbonwatch/2009/10/04/only-one-controversy-remains-the-turnout/</link>
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		<title>No side blames economy but figures bear strong similarity to Nice votes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A decisive majority of voters have voted in favour of the Treaty. Up and down the country, constituency counts indicate a massive swing to the Yes side.
The treaty looks like it will be passed by a margin of two to one, reversing the 53 per cent No vote recorded just 16 months ago.
The Dublin South [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/lisbonwatch/2009/10/03/no-side-blames-economy-but-figures-bear-strong-similarity-to-nice-votes/</link>
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		<title>International interest in Irish vote unprecedented</title>
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The media scrum surrounding this referendum is unprecedented, with some 560 TV, radio and print journalists in receipt of accreditation for the count at Dublin Castle tomorrow.
Last year’s vote on Lisbon attracted 350 journalists. Less than 170 of this year’s 560-strong contingent are Irish, with the bulk of the remainder traveling from other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/lisbonwatch/2009/10/02/international-interest-in-irish-vote-unprecedented/</link>
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		<title>Agressive tactics on both sides stimulate public interest</title>
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Pro-Lisbon groups are still dominating coverage of the referendum campaign in the print media, according to the latest and final TNS MediaMarket survey before the vote.
The agency’s latest media report, which analysed press coverage over the last seven days, found Yes campaigners accounted for 53 per cent of column inches in the national and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/lisbonwatch/2009/09/30/agressive-tactics-by-both-sides-ensure-greater-public-interest-in-outcome/</link>
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		<title>Is that what Phil Lynott died for?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Après Match on Lisbon!
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		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/lisbonwatch/2009/09/29/is-that-what-phil-lynott-died-for/</link>
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		<title>Ganley and De Rossa fisticuffs?</title>
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Just how close Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa and Libertas leader Declan Ganley came to blows yesterday remains a matter of speculation.
The duo were involved in a bitter war of words following a debate on Newstalk’s Wide Angle show.
The argument spilled out of the Newstalk studio in Dublin City centre, down the stairs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/lisbonwatch/2009/09/28/ganley-and-de-rossa-fisticuffs/</link>
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		<title>COIR Blimey!</title>
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COIR become the latest victims of a spoofer with a keen grasp of Photoshop

Surely not?

Hmmm&#8230;.


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		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/lisbonwatch/2009/09/23/coir-blimey/</link>
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		<title>Yes posters cunningly altered to distort meaning</title>
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Several Ireland For Europe campaign posters were taken hostage last week by some devious No campaigner who deftly reconfigured the group’s message.
The pro-Lisbon group’s soft non-threatening images of young people smiling over captions, such as “The Choice Is Yours”, studiously avoid any sententious sloganeering and steer clear of telling the younger demographic just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/lisbonwatch/2009/09/21/errant-no-campaigner-reconfigures-yes-posters/</link>
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		<title>McCreevy’s nocturnal habits upset by treaty</title>
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Last time around, he caused a furore when boldly stating he hadn’t even read the treaty, and doubting whether any sane person would.
Today, McCreevy blagged to reporters that he had done little else but read the treaty over the last six months , and was now well-versed in its many appendices and annexes.
“My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/lisbonwatch/2009/09/18/mccreevy%e2%80%99s-nocturnal-habits-upset-by-treaty/</link>
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		<title>Lisbon debate to be streamed from Irish Times website</title>
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Next Thursday The Last Word will broadcast a special Lisbon Treaty debate from The Irish Times building in Dublin.
The debate, which will streamed live from our website, promises to be a lively affair with a formidable panel of Yes and No campaigners set to take part.
The No team will comprise of Libertas leader [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/lisbonwatch/2009/09/18/lisbon-debate-to-be-broadcast-from-irish-times/</link>
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