Mr Justin Barrett (31) is the public relations officer and de facto leader of the No to Nice Campaign. Despite its all-embracing title, this organisation is only one faction among the anti-Nice forces.
It scored a propaganda coup in the first Nice referendum with striking black-and-red posters carrying the message, "You will lose! Money. Power. Influence." A portrait of a man with a gun to his head in this referendum has been more controversial.
Sinn Féin, the Greens and various socialist groups opposed to Nice have kept their distance from Mr Barrett and his associates because of the manner in which the No to Nice Campaign highlighted the immigration issue.
However, Mr Anthony Coughlan, an academic and Eurosceptic, has shared platforms with Mr Barrett over the summer. They found common ground in opposing the Government's undertaking to allow citizens from the new member-states into Ireland when most other member-states were imposing restrictions on entry.
Since then, the Government has highlighted the fact that it can still demand work permits if there is an unfavourable economic situation. Ironically, it was the liberal Mr Coughlan, a founder-member of the anti-apartheid movement in Ireland, who first raised the immigration issue, although Mr Barrett has reportedly warned of a "flood" of immigrant workers and one of his group's posters rather pointedly urges voters to "Save Irish Jobs".
The No to Nice Campaign operates out of the Youth Defence headquarters in Capel Street, Dublin. In April 1999, Mr Barrett was fined £100 for obstructing a garda at a Youth Defence anti-abortion rally in Dublin: he got the Probation Act on appeal and still protests his innocence.
The No to Nice Campaign is planning to spend about €100,000 in the referendum campaign, four times the Labour Party figure.
Mr Barrett is also the author of a book entitled The National Way Forward! One reviewer wrote that, "Barrett's vision is that of an 'Ireland, united, Gaelic and free' based upon Catholic social doctrine and divorced from the liberal capitalist dogma which the author bitterly castigates throughout his work".
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