The Supreme Court yesterday threw out an appeal by Co Tipperary cattle farmer John Burke against the refusal of the High Court to allow him to legally challenge the forthcoming Lisbon referendum.
The Chief Justice, Mr Justice John Murray, said the submission by Mr Burke, of Duncummin House, Emly, that the same question as put to the Irish electorate in the first referendum could not be posed in a second vote was manifestly unfounded.
The court was satisfied there was nothing in any provision of the Constitution that prohibited the holding of such a second referendum.