Election issues discussed include Green Party being ‘too city based’, Government paying ‘lip service’ to Gaza conflict, housing and homelessness
General election issues were discussed by members of the Loughrea Irish Language Book Club: Michelle Breathnach, Verena Commins, Conor Fahy, Jason Niland, Ruth Ní Shiadhail, Pól Mag Lionáin and Eoghan Mac Cormaic. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessynight descends on the village, the seven book club members dissect Imram, a collection of short stories by Róise Ní Bhaoill, with relish.
“I feel like there are no Greens who represent the full picture. My natural inclination is to vote Green, but the Greens that we have are all city based. I just don’t like the Greens that we do have.anymore so we have very few options. I am struggling to know who to vote for. Nobody is representing me.”
“The huge issue for me at the moment is Gaza and I am devastated at the lip service that is being paid by Irish politicians to the issue,” she says. “I was able to get a job close to home which was great, not having to pay rent. That is the biggest problem that people my age have. If you are in Cork or Dublin, the
“Are the Government doing enough, or anything at all about that? Do they care? Probably not. Is this going to change with the same parties in government? I doubt it.” “Now and then politics comes into the book club. We have discussed issues such as refugees, Palestine, all sorts of things, but we probably fall on the more liberal side of things as a group.
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