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LABOUR LEADER Eamon Gilmore said yesterday a further referendum on the "European issue" would be needed, but he said that the issue was "what question is going to be put to people in that referendum?"

In the aftermath of the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in June, Mr Gilmore categorically ruled out a second referendum, saying that the treaty was dead.