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The term "Super-State" is often used in a negative sense by euro-skeptics.

What exactly does it mean and why is it bad?

Can anyone give an example of a superstate from history?

Valentia Island campaigners call for a No vote regarding the threatened closure and relocation to Shannon of the Marine emergency radio centre with the loss of 17 jobs directly.
It has been a major ongoing issue for sometime in South Kerry.

Thats the margin Hillary utterly white washed Obama in W Virginia... This has to be a huge alarm call for Democrats up and down the country.. How can a presumptive Demomcratic candidate be so roundly beaten in mid May... This guy hasn't a prayer in November... If Hillary isn't the candidate there will be wholesale movements to McCain...

Surely this is good news..... no Celtic Tiger growth levels but its not all that bad
http://www.esri.ie/UserFiles/publications/20080513162227/MTR11_ES.pdf

and the Irish Times frontpage....

Before appointing Barry Andrews as a SuperJunior, with responsibilty for Children's affairs, Brian Cowen should've called to mind the old saying --
"never send a boy on a man's job"!

Lisbon contains the following legal rights for children: Article 24 - The rights of the child 1. Children shall have the right to such protection and care as is necessary for their well-being. They may express their views freely. Such views shall be taken into consideration on matters which concern them in accordance with their age and maturity. 2. In all actions relating to children, whether taken by public authorities or private institutions, the child's best interests must be a primary consideration. 3. Every child shall have the right to maintain on a regular basis a personal relation...

How is Michael Noonan regarded now within FG? Is there any lingering bad feeling towards him for the 2002 election debacle?
Or has the fact that Enda Kenny managed to regain most of the lost support put that in the past. Are there those in FG who feel that they might be in government now if Noonan's misguided personal leadership ambitions hadn't set them back so far.

.. in today's Examiner supports it and does a fairly clinical analysis of much of the hype used by the opponents,
Here

I'd be interested in what the " No " camp would have to say in response. Please refrain from the name - calling etc. that has been such a feature of other threads on this subject.

So badly did the Sinn Fein President wound his party in election 2007, that desperate 'No' campaigners have begged Gory Adams to go into hiding for the duration of the Lisbon Treaty referendum campaign.Unlike even archetypal voter turnoff FG leader Kenny, the kneecappers have had to banish Adams from their posters and replace him with less bloodcurling images of toothy lightweight Mary Lou MacDonald. With Adams in hiding, we have proof now that the all-Ireland party sees wisdom in a partitionist approach to politics. check it out: http://www.sinnfein.ie/[url][/url] Also, who came up with th...

The One Man and His Dog brigade of Irish Freedom fighters struck yet another blow today in the North when they planted a device under the car of a Catholic man on his way to work...

Shameful lads... Really shameful...