Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

It was famously said about the Labour Party that it went into the GPO with James Connolly and never came out again. If there is any purpose to the Labour Party being in government with Fine Gael, surely it is to stand up for the rights of ordinary workers. If there is any rationale for the party's role in this Administration, it should be as the voice of the marginalised and dispossessed. Instead, the Labour Party has fully embraced the right-wing privatisation agenda of Fine Gael. In fairness to that party, we know where Fine Gael stands on all of these issues.

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