Thanks for this thread - it's kick-started me into getting some info on this Treaty. There's a fair bit that I'm not keen on, and I suspect that I would have also voted against it in a referendum.

There's some good reading in the Irish Times on-line. Let me try a blue clicky here , says she breaking out into a cold sweat.

Something which might be a bit misleading to others, McGrath: you are probably right that the Irish must be consulted through referendum, but I think it's a facility available to all EU memebers, but not generally exercised.

Also, it seems that one of the Irish ministers will be making a statement re: the specifics of neutrality in the very near future.

sian