I am also a little surprised at Sinn Féin's preference for sterling, Crown and all, over the euro in Northern Ireland, and that it dislikes Europe even more than Britain. This is not just my perception. The Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, writing about our referendum on 5 September, remarked, "Above all, the Dublin offshoot of the ideologues from the North behave in this matter as if they were British Conservatives." Jörg Haider, as quoted in The Irish Times of 24 June, crowed: