The gist of the issue, as I understand it, is that we are being asked to surrender more of our sovereignty.
So its bad enough that the Troika tell us how we can and cannot spend out money, but now we have to legislate to ensure that we cannot do as our elected representatives decide.
Previous referendums were named after places, such as the Nice treaty and the Maastricht treaty. So is this one named after a place?
No it is not.
Is it instead named after what it appears to be: the "surrender more of your sovereignty treaty" or the "straitjacket treaty"?
No it is not.
A leaflet that arrived through my letterbox reassuringly calls it the "Stability treaty".
So that's nice.
I like stability. The link to the associated website is to "stabilitytreaty.ie". One of the pages on the website mentions that it was created by the Department of the Taoiseach. I couldn't find that little nugget of information on the leaflet itself.
I wonder how they chose the name "stability treaty". Perhaps other candidate names such as the "happiness treaty" or the "ice-cream and chocolate treaty" weren't available. Perhaps those names are being saved for future treaties.
The leaflet is full of reassuring phrases such as "support growth and employment", "renewed confidence" and "good housekeeping.
There is a video on the website which has some very reassuring messages accompanied by some very reassuring music. It talks about "investment and jobs". It says that the treaty can help to "avoid a repeat of the economic and banking crisis".
I'm not convinced. I think I'll be voting no.