The Green Party has been plunged into further division and dissent as former candidate Julia
O’Donoghue resigns from the party.
In a Twitter statement the unsuccessful Roscommon-Galway candidate said that the party no longer
reflects ‘my own values and principles or, indeed, its own policies’.
Her resignation follows that of Mayo candidate Saoirse McHugh last week, as the Greens spiral into
controversy and public outcry for its coalition actions with Fine Gael and Fianna Fail.
When leader Eamonn Ryan voted against introducing a Living Wage to low paid workers, and was
asleep in the Dail for the ballot, hundreds took to social media to express their disgust at the
compromises made by the supposedly left leaning party.
On Friday the speaking rights of two Green TDs, Neasa Hourigan and Joe O’Brien, were withdrawn
for voting against or abstaining from the government’s Residential Tenancies Bill. It seems that the Green Party are proving a disappointment both to the electorate and their own members and seem likely to follow the cycle of the 2012 election when they lost all their seats after a disastrous coalition with Fianna Fail.
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