The Galway West byelection will provide the next electoral opportunity for parties of the left to co-operate, Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik has said.
Ms Bacik said Catherine Connolly’s landslide victory in the presidential election had shown there was a “real appetite for an alternative vision of politics” and an end to what she called the politics of the past associated with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
She said she hoped parties of the left would build on that moment in the byelection which is a r
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