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Sat 09 Sep 2009Noxious propaganda and inventions should have no place in debate on the Lisbon Treaty
It is vital to focus on the positive aspects of Lisbon in the weeks ahead - first, however, it is necessary to address misleading claims
BEFORE TURNING to the Lisbon Treaty I want to comment briefly on Thursday’s opinion poll in The Irish Times. Two weeks before this year’s local elections, I wrote that Fianna Fáil would not do quite as badly in these as had been suggested in the most recent TNS mrbi poll. This was because in my view the downward adjustments in the number of Fianna Fáil voters that TNS mrbi had been making for many years previously, in order to allow for consistent overstatement of Fianna Fáil support, were no longer appropriate – now that Fianna Fáil had lost its traditional “flavour of the month” status.
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