The Green Party has argued that the guarantees that Ireland had received on retaining the State’s military neutrality are cast-iron and cannot be altered by the Lisbon Treaty.
In the party’s last press conference before polling , Green leader John Gormley yesterday described as “utterly without foundation” claims that Irish people will be conscripted into a [...]

A YES vote is the first step to economic recovery – Gormley
Green Party leader John Gormley today said Lisbon NO campaigners who question the validity of Ireland’s Lisbon guarantees are simply telling lies. Addressing the Green Party’s final YES to Lisbon campaign press conference, Minister Gormley said the 27 EU governments had given Ireland guarantees [...]

-Austrian Green MEP says neutral and non-aligned countries have nothing to fear from Treaty
The Green Party today said the Lisbon Treaty would have no effect on Ireland’s neutrality and would not force young Irish men into war. At a press conference in the European Parliament offices in Dublin, Austrian Green MEP Ulrike Lunacek joined her [...]

Views of Lisbon rejectionists contradicted by vast majority of Greens and environmentalists
The No campaigners who have claimed that the Lisbon Treaty would do nothing for environmental protection are becoming increasingly desperate in their attempts to discredit the Treaty, the Green Party’s European Affairs spokesperson Senator Deirdre de Burca said this morning.
Senator de Burca, who is [...]

This week saw leaders gather from across the world to debate one important issue – climate change. So important is this issue that Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the UN chose to invite Presidents and Prime Ministers rather than Environment Ministers to the UN General Assembly to discuss the need to take urgent action [...]

 The Lisbon Treaty debate in Ireland to date has focused on whether the treaty will support and promote Irish interests – those of businesses, workers, farmers etc. While women are obviously included in all of these categories, it is legitimate nonetheless to ask specifically whether the treaty will be good for women.  In my opinion [...]

Green Party Senator, Deirdre de Burca has today strongly criticised Lisbon No campaigners who have promoted “false and misleading” claims about an alleged threat to minimum wage levels in Ireland if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified.
Senator de Burca says that many young people she is meeting during her canvassing for the Lisbon Treaty have expressed [...]

Specialists in the fields of energy efficiency, climate change and heritage joined the Environment Minister John Gormley and Green Party Senator Deirdre de Burca to promote a Yes vote in the Lisbon Treaty at a press event in Dublin this morning.
Speaking in the recently completed Trinity Point building on Leinster Street South, which was built [...]

Speaking during a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs today Senator de Burca said the newspaper, which describes itself as a ‘catholic monthly newspaper’ is peddling gross mistruths about the Lisbon Treaty and is preying on the most vulnerable in society.
Senator de Burca said: “It is important that the fundamentalist and extremist views [...]

Lisbon builds on Europe’s good track record on women’s rights
At a public meeting on the Lisbon Treaty hosted by the Feminist Open Forum last night in the Central Hotel in Dublin, the Green Party’s spokesperson on European Affairs, Senator Deirdre de Burca said that the Lisbon Treaty represented a ‘good deal for women’.
“The European Union [...]