Questions over closure of Irish National Forum on Europe

There are enough questions over the stifling of democratic legitimacy in the Lisbon Treaty without the closure of a forum devoted to debate ahead of the entirely illegitimate second referendum in Ireland one would have thought. Yet that very action is the subject of a discussion in the Irish Independent today, linked here, under the headline:-

Risky ploy ahead of our biggest foreign policy decision in years

from which I have selected this quote:

The failure of the Yes campaign to lead the debate has led some politicians to note privately the forum was “hijacked” by No campaigners.