Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Does the Tánaiste disagree that what was at stake, with four of the six defendants who stood in the dock today being members of Solidarity, was an attempt, following the surge to the left and the Corbyn surge in the UK, for the Government to get its retaliation in first and to knock the left back? That has failed quite spectacularly and the left is on the front foot now.

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