One of the very few Greens who talks to me about anything said on Monday that she wondered very much about whether the election would have been nearly as disastrous for her party, in fact, had Ryan remained leader and contested the election.
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What voters have joined, man must not separate….
Fractured
“Getting the working class out to vote” has basically been the pipe dream of every revolutionary left wing movement in the west for decades now.
There is no substitute, in the Irish system, for going out and building up a client base. Helen McEntee has done it, and most of her harshest critics – Willie O’Dea aside – have not.
High-profile TDs and Ministers lose jobs
The long term trajectory of Irish politics is broadly unchanged. B
However bad the civil war parties are, the alternative will always be worse to a clear majority of voters
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II candidate Ken O’Flynn surges in Cork North Central
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