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The impression I receive is that many Irish are unhappy with the economic situation in Ireland.
It doesn't seem to me that the EU constitution can do anything to help unemployed people find work in the West and is more interested in keeping the West and the East of the EU area divided into two distinct sectors, where the average national income in one part is about three times higher than in the other.
This makes it highly unlikely that Ireland could find any opportunity to export to eastern Europe, as is the case with Britain too. And because in Britain employers in factories tend to prefer employing people who are accustomed in their own country to a salary much lower than in Britain, who are willing to work hard without complaining in order to get £5.93 an hour, the Irish, who are used to the same salary as the British, don't stand a chance of finding work here.
Exactly the same applies to most other western countries in the EU. The people who take advantage of job opportunities in western EU countries are those coming from the East: as they earn much less in their own country, they go in large numbers to western countries to find work.
So what chance does the unemployed Irish or British citizen stand?
And what chance does the Irish citizen stand of finding some employment in Britain for a few years to make ends meet?
As far as I am concerned, the EU paralyses relations between western countries, between neighbouring peoples, and here in Britain it looks as though we have forgotten our historical relationship with the Irish, and are stuck on the date 3 September 1939!
Now I know I will be cautioned, but still, I think it is time that Eastern Europe moved on and looked after themselves, and let us get on with attending to our relations with our close neighbours and seeing to our own interests.
From a very personal point of view, all I know about the EU is that I haven't got a penny to spare to go and visit Ireland, or to go for a trip to France or visit Belgium and Holland. That is the EU!
I do believe that many millions of people in Britain and Ireland, and many millions more in western Europe, are in the same situation, and probably haven't got the spare pennies to even catch a train and visit a place in their own country.