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God help me, I'm Irish, this c**nting smoking ban, amongst other tyrannical regulations, (can't burn rubbish in your OWN backyard, etc.,) I believe it has to be something to do with the Nice Treaty.

This government (which many commentators bizarrely call a 'centre right' government), refused to accept the verdict of electorate first time round, thus ramming the Nice Treaty down our throats the second time, which I believe is unconstitutional:

BUNREACHT NA hÉIREANN

THE REFERENDUM

Article 47

2. 1° Every proposal, other than a proposal to amend the Constitution, which is submitted by Referendum to the decision of the people shall be held to have been vetoed by the people if a majority of the votes cast at such Referendum shall have been cast against its enactment into law and if the votes so cast against its enactment into law shall have amounted to not less than thirty-three and one-third per cent. of the voters on the register.

2° Every proposal, other than a proposal to amend the Constitution, which is submitted by Referendum to the decision of the people shall for the purposes of Article 27 hereof be held to have been approved by the people unless vetoed by them in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing sub-section of this section.

I guess they'll ram the European 'constitution' down our throats as well (time to throw up the rope then, even if suicide is a mortal sin, and I end up in Hell, it would on balance have to be the better alternative).

Either that or I'll move to Iraq

I'm off now on a smoke free piss-up, Viva La Counter-Revolution