If left-leaning people vote for Sinn Fein or the ultra-left in large numbers, they are likely to end up with a more right-wing Government, according to Minister Alex White, Labour candidate for Dublin Rathdown. Speaking in Galway at the official launch of Derek Nolan’s campaign to retain the Galway West seat for Labour, Minister White said:…

Speaking at the launch of the Labour Party General Election Campaign Colleagues, friends, members of the media, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you here to the Bord Gais Energy Theatre for the formal launch of The Labour Party’s General Election campaign. This is a symbolic part of the capital to hold our launch….

Speaking at the launch of the Labour Party General Election Campaign ‘Brilliant and balanced’ Not my words – those of the European Commissioner. Describing an economy that six years ago Fianna Fáil drove off the cliff. And the Commissioner is right. It is a remarkable turnaround. And we should be unapologetic about it. When we…

Speaking at the Labour Party General Election campaign launch: Five years ago this week, the 30th Dail was dissolved amid unprecedented political and economic crisis. Our country was bankrupt. The economy was in freefall. The Fianna Fail-led government had ceased to function. On that occasion, the Labour Party asked the people for a mandate. A…

Labour will sustain and spread the recovery and create an economy and a society that works for working people, the Tánaiste and Labour Party Leader, Joan Burton TD, said today. Speaking at the formal launch of the Labour Party’s campaign in Dublin, the Tánaiste said Labour would continue to manage the public finances sensibly and…

No one believes Fianna Fail’s crocodile tears today over housing provision in the State.  They are an insult to the thousands of families who have been consigned to lengthy waiting lists thanks to the massive legacy issue that is Fianna Fail’s botched housing policy while in power.   Micheal Martin has a serious credibility problem…

Eamon Ryan’s comments on climate change are frankly unbelievable. He claims one of the only reasons he went into government with Fianna Fail was to deliver climate change legislation, which he then utterly failed to do.   I’m happy to discuss climate change with Eamon Ryan any day of the week.   In contrast to Eamon Ryan…

Wants everyone to forget that Fianna Fail crashed the country Two days into this campaign and Micheal Martin is already tying himself in knots over Fianna Fail’s ruinous economic record. Yesterday, Deputy Martin said the 2012 apology he made for Fianna Fail’s economic recklessness “stands”, yet wasn’t prepared to say if he would repeat the…