It's amazing. FF have been proven in government to be utterly useless, completely out for their own good, and always with an eye out for the cushy job in Europe or the Aras.

And yet the Irish people are dumb enough to follow FF's lead on Europe and Lisbon. Thankfully there are still a few intelligent people like me and others who see the removal of even one power from Ireland and it's concentration in Europe a bad idea.

One of the reasons we cannot get out of our present recession in Ireland is we have no control over any of the main economic levers. They are all controlled a thousand miles or more away.