Last week, Labour stalwart Brendan Howlin announced that he would not contest the next general election, in what came as only a mild surprise given Howlin is past the retirement age for most people in the country. Yesterday however, that uppercut was followed by a body blow, as one of Labour’s younger TDs, Sean Sherlock, announced that he too would be abandoning electoral politics at the next election, citing constituency boundary changes as the reason:
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