Ireland's Yes campaign must do better

An opinion poll in Ireland on Friday registered a clear decline in support for the Treaty of Lisbon. Diarmuid Doyle writes in The Sunday Tribune that supporters of the Treaty must get their act together before the referendum on October 2: "The Yes campaign needs an enthusiast, somebody who tingles with excitement at the very mention of Brussels, and can convey that passion to a sullen electorate (which needs a very good reason to change its mind, having already spoken on this issue). The minister for Europe Dick Roche fits that bill. ... A month of non-stop Dick would be too much for anyone, but a two-week burst of Euro enthusiasm from the Wicklow TD [Member of Parliament] near the end of the campaign might persuade people that there is still something to this whole EU thing. Whatever the Yes campaign decides, it has to do better than pathetic posters from pointless pressure groups. Friday's opinion poll confirms that."

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