Alison O’Connor, columnist with The Irish Examiner on Prime Time last night
Last night RTÉ’s Prime Time looked at the forthcoming general election.
During the programme, Irish Examiner columnist Alison O’Connor said:
“Well, if variety is your kind of thing, this election is going to be for you. I think we’re going to see a real all-sorts Dáil, following this election. But that could feed into, possibly, an unstable situation.”
“The last few years has seen a phenomenal rise in the hard left. The way that they’ve tapped into people’s upset at the Government’s austerity policies, the way they’ve managed to bring people, tens of thousands of people out onto the street to protest. But I think, equally surprising really has been how they’ve failed to capitalise on that. There isn’t a sense that there’s going to be massive gains in the general election.”
Meanwhile, also last night…
This might illustrate just how much the Irish political landscape has changed. #rtept #GE16 pic.twitter.com/Zh9ijFbfEA
— Dan O’Brien (@danobrien20) January 5, 2016
Watch last night’s Prime Time in full here
Previously: The Squiggle Of Doom