Ms Bacik’s followers optimistic for a good local and European elections
Fiona Connelly at the Labour Party conference says she admires the leader and her record on equality issues, and she reflects an apparent party-wide stance not to criticise the Social Democrats. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Timesnicked some of our policies” according to Gary Lynch, vice chair of the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency organisation. He quips that everybody has “stolen our lunch”.
China’s food deliverers: ‘Online order platforms don’t treat their riders well. They don’t have kind hearts’Ireland needs a dose of ‘Protestant pragmatism’, where power is delegated to the peopleOf the Social Democrats he will only say they “pursue primarily the same policies we do but there may be personality clashes” between the two parties.
She loves the role, following her co-option to Dublin City Council in the Kimmage-Rathmines area nine months ago to succeed councillor Mary Frehill. The 42-year-old primary schoolteacher is hopeful that because she has worked diligently as a councillor she will be returned by the electorate. “It’s like the Leaving Cert, if you study hard you’ll get the results.”
But he believes Labour will do well in the local elections because of the quality of its candidates, even though it will be difficult with the increase in various “flavours of Independents”. He points to the Rosslare end of Wexford constituency where he worries about likely success for candidates running on an anti-immigrant platform.
Bridín Lyng Moloney feels the same, describing the Dublin Bay South TD as an inspirational and impressive politician of integrity. The 47-year-old community education facilitator insists Labour has a rural party dimension, and is not just an urban party, an accusation that has been thrown consistently at Bacik. The Wexford-based delegate is also amazed at the calibre of Labour candidates.
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