Yes to Lisbon: Politicians, businessmen, TV stars and entrepreneurs explain to Alison O’Riordan why they’ll say Yes in the Lisbon referendum

Dr Garret FitzGerald, former Taoiseach: “I am voting Yes because it is the most democratically drafted treaty every signed — drawn up by democratically elected politicians from opposition parties as well as governments. Second, because Ireland had a bigger input than into any other treaty every agreed. John Bruton on the Presidium of the Convention that prepared the draft text; Dick Roche organising and chairing the group of 16 smaller countries that ensured the larger countries could not

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