Labour Party leader Brendan Howlin TD canvassing in Dún Laoghaire with the party’s candidate Juliette O’Connell. “I would certainly be willing to offer full co-operation on behalf of the Labour Party” he says. And we’ve always been the agents of change.”“By and large,” he says, “modern Ireland has been shaped by the Labour Party more than any other political party”. Like all the small parties, Labour is struggling to get heard in this crowded, noisy election. The struggle to reassert the Labour Party’s place on the national political stage remains on a knife-edge.

Source: The Irish Times February 03, 2020 02:48 UTC