Ireland shifts slightly to the left as Europe goes right |
World of Politics with Harry McGee
One of the perennial political debates during my lifetime has come from followers of the left, bemoaning the lack of a left-right divide in Irish politics and expressing frustration that the State was beholden to Civil War politics.
All that has changed in just a decade and a half with the Civil War parties now struggling to make up 45 per cent of the popular vote on a good day.
The recent Presidential election was an unusual showing of left unity with all the parties and groups coming together to gain a spectacular success for Catherine........