Politics
Elaine Byrne: Languishing Labour party is no longer regarded as credible by voters
Labour under Ivana Bacik is allowing other left-leaning parties to attract support while it is static at 4 per cent as it pushes strategies that are amateurish, flaky and populist
Ivana Bacik is not turning the Labour party into an electoral force, despite fanciful and whimsical suggestions to the contrary last week.
The last time Labour reached the high octaves of 5 per cent was in the March 2022 Red C Business Post poll. The Dublin Bay South TD had just taken over the reins from Alan Kelly after a strange and as yet not fully explained coup d'état. The Bacik bounce of one per ...