Without high expectations of change, poverty stricken families in remote villages of the landlocked Asian country will continue to find themselves the recipients of red coffins, shipped back like presents containing the carefully wrapped corpses of their loved ones.

Voters have been subjected to a barrage of outlandish claims the Treaty would supposedly introduce abortion into Ireland (it is outlawed under Ireland s constitution), abolish Ireland s low corporate tax rate, and introduce a European army that would soon be sending Irish boys home from distant battlefields in body bags.