'A lot of people in politics are terrified to be seen as being on the right of certain issues or not to be progressive on certain issues.'
Speaking after he was confirmed as Fine Gael yesterday, Simon Harris appeared to hark back to some of his party’s older and more conservative values.
In her speech to the gathering, Deputy Murphy said the Government had “lost the people” and criticised Fine Gael for turning her into a ‘national pariah’ after she made comments linking migrants to Islamic State. “Like Michael Healy Rae got lambasted by people in his committee for daring to disagree with the recent report they had on assisted dying for example.
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