Ryan has often quoted Samuel Beckett’s line: “Fail, fail again, fail better.”While a heavy blow, it was not the wipeout of 2011 when the Green Party lost all six of its deputies. Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman TD. During the last administration, he notes, the climate minister sat at the leaders’ meeting. Green Party Dublin city councillor Janet Horner. “It’s clear the Government is taking its foot off the pedal, with issues the Green Party championed being sidelined,” she says.

Source: The Irish Times February 28, 2026 09:02 UTC