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National - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Thomas Pringle (TD) To Deliver 2012 Crotty Lecture national |
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 Monday November 05, 2012 15:59 by FRANK KEOGHAN - PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT POST at PEOPLE dot IE 087-2308330
 THOMAS PRINGLE FOLLOWS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CROTTY Crotty v. An Taoiseach (1986) was a landmark decision of the Irish Supreme Court which found that Ireland could not ratify the Single European Act unless the Irish Constitution was first changed to permit its ratification. The case established that significant changes to EU treaties required an amendment to the Irish constitution – always done by means of a referendum – before they could be ratified by Ireland. Now, twenty – five years later, Thomas Pringle has challenged the ratification of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), in the Supreme Court. Though this case has received very little publicity here, the importance of it was underlined by the media scrum surrounding the hearing at the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg which considered three questions referred to it by the Irish Supreme Court on foot of the challenge. This is an opportunity to hear an outline of the basis for and the importance of the case first – hand from the man himself.
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