Irish Alliance for Europe
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| Formation |
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| Founder |
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| Type | Political movement |
| Legal status | Defunct |
| Purpose | Advocating for a yes vote on the Treaty of Nice and Treaty of Lisbon referendums in Ireland |
Region | Republic of Ireland |
Chair | Ruairi Quinn[1] |
Director | Brendan Kiely[1] |
Campaign Director | Adrian Langan[2] |
Key people | |
| Website | Archive of website |
The Irish Alliance for Europe was founded in summer 2002 by Professor Brigid Laffan of University College Dublin in order to lead the civil society campaign in favour of the Treaty of Nice at the second Irish referendum.[3][4] Adrian Langan was recruited as full-time Campaign Director.[2][5]
In January 2008,[6] the organisation was resurrected by Ruairi Quinn TD, Michael O'Kennedy, Pat Cox, former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, and former CEO of European Movement Ireland, Brendan Kiely, in order to campaign in the referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty.[7][8][9]
In May 2009, the alliance was referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) over failing to provide a certificate of monetary donations to the Standards in Public Office Commission. The DPP later declined to prosecute after the Standards Commission received a certificate and a bank statement relating to donations in August 2009.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Website: Irish Alliance for Europe". European Sources Online. 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ a b Sheehan, Aideen (13 September 2002). "Yes alliance warns No vote would weaken our link to EU". Irish Independent. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ "Prof Brigid Laffan". University of Limerick. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
Brigid has contributed to debate in Ireland on European affairs by chairing the Irish Alliance for Europe during the Nice II referendum and Ireland for Europe during the second Lisbon referendum.
- ^ "NGOs launch campaign for Nice "yes" vote". Irish Examiner. 12 September 2002. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ Evans-Pritchard, Blake (21 November 2003). "Nice campaigner named young European of the year". EUobserver. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ Deloy, Corinne; Schuman, Fondation Robert; Levy, Helen (13 May 2008). "Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland 12th June 2008". Robert Schuman Foundation. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ "Alliance launches Treaty Yes campaign". RTÉ News. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ "Yes camp claim initiative in Lisbon Treaty campaign". Irish Examiner. 17 May 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ de Breadun, Deaglan (13 September 2002). "New alliance group opens its Yes campaign". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ Annual Report 2009 (PDF) (Report). Standards in Public Office Commission. June 2010. pp. 40–41. ISSN 2009-3217. Retrieved 1 April 2025.