A round-up of other referendum news compiled by Carl O'Brien.
Tories queue up to say 'thanks'
British eurosceptics and Sinn Féin may not be obvious bedfellows - but in the giddy afterglow of yesterday's result, who cared?
Tory politicians in the UK queued up to congratulate No voters in Ireland for their noble strength of character.
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farrage gushed: "When you think of how they've been bullied, the Irish showed a great independence of mind."
Perhaps the most effusive contribution was the Tory blogger "Future Conservative" who likened Irish No voters to the great liberators of the UK.
"It is one of the great ironies of history," he wrote, "that we have had to rely on the Irish, a former foe and colony, to come to our rescue and defend our liberty."
Bookies count the cost of Yes payout before polls closed
The biggest immediate loser out of the referendum defeat wasn't Brian Cowen, the Irish political establishment or the EU - it was the bookies. They were busy scraping egg off their faces yesterday, none more so than Paddy Power.
So confident was it of a Yes vote that it opted to pay out €80,000 in Yes bets on Thursday night before a single vote was counted.
However, within 90 minutes of the ballot boxes being opened in count centres around the country, Paddy Power admitted it had made a monumental mistake.
The blunder means the bookmaker will be forced to pay out more than €180,000 in referendum bets. Not only that, Paddy Power must pay out €50,000 on a single bet after one lucky punter placed a €10,000 bet for a No vote at odds of 5/1.
"It's an unlucky Friday 13th for Paddy Power but at least it's a lucky one for our punters," a Paddy Power spokesman said.
If it's good enough for Charlie . . .
Spoiled votes helped to briefly lift the sense of gloom among the Yes campaigners in Mayo yesterday.
One disgruntled voter in Castlebar spoiled a vote by echoing EU commissioner Charlie McCreevy who had said he was "too busy" to read the treaty. Scribbled across a ballot paper was: "I never read it. So sorry, very busy, you know."
It was one of 197 spoiled votes in Mayo. Otherwise, voters were exceptionally well behaved, spoiling just over 6,000 votes, or only 0.3 per cent of the national poll.
A lose-lose situation
Voters in the Lisbon Treaty referendum brought a quick end to the escapades of a car hijacker who picked the wrong town at the wrong time to try and evade justice.
The 27-year-old hopped into the parked car in the middle of Ratoath village, Co Meath, before speeding off in the direction of Dublin on Thursday evening.
Things quickly went wrong for him: in the passenger seat was a woman who was waiting for her husband to bring her to the local polling station. Then the car got caught in a traffic jam of voters on their way to cast their ballot.
After trying to flee into a neighbouring field, he was apprehended by an off-duty garda and taken to Trim Garda station.