They voted NO to the Lisbon Treaty. They were the only citizens allowed to vote on the proposed treaty in the only referendum allowed, 3 million voting for the 490 million who were not allowed.
David Pryce Jones explains
The Lisbon Treaty was supposed to mark the moment when the United States of Europe irrevocably became a political and juridical entity, with the character of an empire. In earlier stages of the empire-building process, the French and the Dutch voted NO in referendums, but the European Union and national governments chose to ignore those votes, pressing ahead as though public opinion did not exist. The 27 heads of states in Europe all signed up to the treaty in draft, and all are in the process of ratifying it, simply bulldozing it through by means of presidential decree or parliamentary measures without consulting their populations. The absence of democratic consent would have been delightfully familiar to Stalin.
All except the Irish, that is. Their constitution alone specified a referendum. As usual, the elite, big business, the media, favoured a YES vote, and took it for granted. But the Irish people did not want to lose their constitution or their sovereignty. If other countries in the EU were allowed a similar vote, they too would reject the Lisbon Treaty. In a very real sense, the Irish have spoken for the majority of Europeans.
The E.U. will find someway some way to ignore this resounding NO just as they did two years ago when the French and the Dutch voted NO on the proposed E. U. Constitution which was then repackaged as the Lisbon Treaty.
Richard North has a round-ip at Pajamas Media, the Irish Voters Dump Latest EU Treaty and sent it packing.
Such an idea is akin to the voters of Colorado deciding on the president of the United States of America, the others leaving it for their state legislatures to decide.
I loved the comment by Letalis Maximus.
First Guinness, now this. The Irish; is there nothing they can’t do?
Bravo, I say. Bravo.