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Tue 09 Sep 2009O'Leary says Ireland 'needs Europe'
Anyone with a modicum of sense will vote Yes in the Lisbon treaty referendum, Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said in what he called his "last political press conference".
He said it was "time that Irish people wake up to the fact that we are bankrupt and that we need Europe more than Europe needs us". He repeatedly stressed what he said were the two principal reasons for a Yes vote that were driven by the economy and secured by Ireland this time around -"we are guaranteed to keep an EU Commissioner" and Ireland would secure a veto on direct taxation.
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