Dublin South West TD Paul Murphy
This afternoon.
Mícheál Lehane, of RTÉ, tweetz:
I understand that TD Paul Murphy and the Socialist Party have parted ways. More to follow.
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Paul Murphy TD
They hate you if you’re clever.
And they despise a fool…
“Are we guilty of not ‘telling the truth’ to the working class when we don’t bring a demand to leave the EU?
We always tell the truth to the working class. But we present the truth in the way which is most digestible to the working class at a particular time.”
Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy quoted In internal party documents discussing Brexit and wider strategy by the Irish Times this morning.
*thud*
Socialist Party to present truth in ‘most digestible’ way to working class (Irish Times)
Senator McCarthy Paul Bradford (Reform Alliance) called out the Socialist Party on the latest water charges protests this afternoon.
I raised here last week, Cathaoirleach the fact that we were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I’m sure Deputy Murphy and his colleagues in the Socialist Party and that ilk wished that the Berlin Wall and all it stood for, was still standing. Because they in their Trotsky Marxist view of the world have absolutely nothing in common with genuine working class people on this island….We must learn from this disaster but we all stand shoulder to shoulder with the Tánaiste and indeed anybody who’s been put under unfair pressure by mob rule. We must never give in to mob rule in this country. We haven’t given in to the mob rule of the Provisional IRA in the 60s, 70s, and 80s and we must not give in to mob rule now of extreme left-wing socialists who look back to a panacea of the Soviet Union and North Korea. That’s their aspiration for our island and it’s not an aspiration that I, and the vast majority of the people on this land would share.
1991 called.
They’d like their college debating rhetoric and striped shirt returned.
Only Me
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Newly elected TD Ruth Coppinger, top, (Socialist Party) and newly elected MEP Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) at Leinster House, Dublin this afternoon. Both were at government buildings to join the the Our Children’s Health campaign protest for automatic medical cards for children with serious illnesses.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Name Changer
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Gavan Reilly, of Today FM, reports that the Socialist Party is to change its name to ‘Stop the Water Tax – Socialist Party’, ahead of the European and local elections in May.
More as he gets it.
Eamon Gilmore with deputies Ciara Conway, Aodhan O Riordain and Dominic Hannigan launching the Irish language leg of Labour’s Fiscal Treaty Campaign at Merrion Square, Dublin earlier.
Meanwhile, outside Leinster House
Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy (top) and below with Joe Higgins TD and People Before Profit/ United Left Alliance Councillor Melissa Halpin with austerity polling cards.
(Sasko Lazarov and Sam Boal/ Photocall Ireland)