Jolly Red Giant
23rd March 2014, 01:38
An ex-Labour Party member of parliament in Ireland resigned today after getting caught making unsolicited inappropriate comments to a 17-year old girl on facebook.
Patrick Nulty is a member of parliament for the Dublin West constituency.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0322/603972-patrick-nulty/
Socialist Party TD, Joe Higgins currently represents Dublin West and in by-election in 2011 in Dublin West the Socialist Party candidate, Ruth Coppinger, came close to winning the by-election. Nulty ran as a LP candidate but positioned himself as being opposed to austerity (despite the LP being in government after the general election a few months earlier). Nulty later resigned from the LP over austerity.
Since the by-election in 2011, the Socialist Party initiative, the Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA), has developed a significant base in Dublin West and the AAA is running 7 candidates in local elections in Dublin West in May including Ruth Coppinger (the Socialist Party currently has two local councillors Coppinger and Matt Waine). The LP support has collapsed since the by-election and it is expected that a lot of Nulty's votes will go to Ruth Coppinger (and Sinn Fein) in the upcoming by-election.
While taking nothing for granted - the Socialist Party and the AAA activists are optimistic that Ruth Coppinger can win the seat. Furthermore - the by-election campaign (which will start tomorrow) will boost Paul Murphy's chances of retaining the Socialist Party's EU Parliamentary seat and will significantly boost the development of the AAA election campaigns in different parts of the country.
Patrick Nulty is a member of parliament for the Dublin West constituency.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0322/603972-patrick-nulty/
Socialist Party TD, Joe Higgins currently represents Dublin West and in by-election in 2011 in Dublin West the Socialist Party candidate, Ruth Coppinger, came close to winning the by-election. Nulty ran as a LP candidate but positioned himself as being opposed to austerity (despite the LP being in government after the general election a few months earlier). Nulty later resigned from the LP over austerity.
Since the by-election in 2011, the Socialist Party initiative, the Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA), has developed a significant base in Dublin West and the AAA is running 7 candidates in local elections in Dublin West in May including Ruth Coppinger (the Socialist Party currently has two local councillors Coppinger and Matt Waine). The LP support has collapsed since the by-election and it is expected that a lot of Nulty's votes will go to Ruth Coppinger (and Sinn Fein) in the upcoming by-election.
While taking nothing for granted - the Socialist Party and the AAA activists are optimistic that Ruth Coppinger can win the seat. Furthermore - the by-election campaign (which will start tomorrow) will boost Paul Murphy's chances of retaining the Socialist Party's EU Parliamentary seat and will significantly boost the development of the AAA election campaigns in different parts of the country.