EU: Ireland to hold fresh EU treaty referendum on Oct 2

Ireland will hold a second referendum on the European Union’s Lisbon reform treaty on October 2, Prime Minister Brian Cowen said on Wednesday.

Cowen won legal guarantees from his EU partners last month to address concerns of voters who last June opposed the treaty, designed to streamline EU decision-making and give the 27-nation bloc a greater say in world affairs.

via Ireland to hold fresh EU treaty referendum on Oct 2 | Top News | Reuters.

Irish Election has the amendments done to the Lisbon Treaty to present it to this referendum. The main point is 6:

No provision of this Constitution invalidates laws enacted, acts done or measures adopted by the State, before, on or after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, that are necessitated by the obligations of membership of the European Union referred to in subsection 5° of this section or of the European Atomic Energy Community, or prevents laws enacted, acts done or measures adopted by—
i the said European Union or the European Atomic Energy Community, or by institutions thereof,
ii the European Communities or European Union existing immediately before the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, or by institutions thereof, or
iii bodies competent under the treaties referred to in this section, from having the force of law in the State.

A new euro-esceptic group has been launched for the new referendum:

The Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group – the new eurosceptic party formerly known as the Independence-Democracy Group – announced its party name and political programme on Wednesday (1 July).

The new party of 30 MEPs also intends to campaign against the Lisbon Treaty in the second Irish referendum likely to be held this October, with the party’s co-president, Nigel Farage of UKIP, laying down a strong marker at the party’s first meeting in the European parliament.

“We will do our damndest in the second referendum to make sure that the people of Ireland understand that these so-called ‘guarantees’ that they were given at the recent European summit, frankly are not worth the paper that they were written on,” he said.