At least one elected official has a spine.

I hope for labours sake they are looking at the greens and the PD’s faith. This all looks to me like the beginning of a party implosion as local elections begin the process of eradication of these dinosaurs

Before the next election I’d expect her to be an independent.

How about
Labour must return to honesty and keeping promises.

At last. A labour politician with a backbone speaks some sense. ‘Casper the ghost’ Gilmore had better up his game .

Latest poll figures to come out this weekend don’t look too good for Labour.

Does champagne socialist Eamon Gilmore even know what Labours core beliefs are anymore?

The old cliché of dead patriots spinning in graves comes to mind.

It’s a like a bricklayer telling an architect that the walls that he wants him to build are unsafe because the foundations are not adequate to support the weight , unfortunately the walls still gets built by a different bricklayer & sure enough eventually the walls come tumbling down.

I am disgusted by the turnaround on the issue of Shannon airport rendition flights by Gilmore. Obviously a vote getter policy that got dropped like a hot potato once in office. This will come back to haunt us.

The founders of the Labour party in Ireland I suspect, are turning in their graves.
The current leadership in their rush to get power, have sold their principles and selves to the devil of capitalism and self- gain!
Forgetting in the meanwhile about the very people they are supposed to be representing, the hard working workers of the country and those that want to work.
Shame on them!

Unless there is clear change – not just some PR whitewashing stunts and spin – I and my family will never be voting Labour again.
We are already never voting Fianna Fail, the Greens and Fine Gael again ever.
(Going towards the Irish Democratic Party.)

The big question if Labour dies who else is left to vote for?

Looks like the ULA are about to get their second MEP.

The nature of coalition governments is that there will be give and take on both sides. Of course Labour aren’t going to get everything they wanted why should they? They didn’t win the election and have half the number of seats that Fine Gael do. When Labour win the next election outright Ms Childers then Labour policies can be at the core of government but until then you’ll compromise with the big bad wolves in Fine Gael. As the late Seamus Brennan said “you’re playing senior hurling now lads”.

Childers has shifted between political parties, developing her own core values no doubt. Attention seeking stuff.

rubbish,non-one believes even her

Labour is governing according to it’s core values. Forget the veneer of political propaganda!

I find it odd all these posters talking about backbone. It doesn’t take much backbone to spout some populist rhetoric along the lines of ‘Austerity isn’t working’.
It takes backbone to come up with a meaningful solution to the massive deficits this country is still running.
Fair dues to Labor for being realistic in government.