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SINN FEIN MEP Lynn Boylan attacked recently elected members of Ireland’s hung parliament yesterday for reneging on their promise to scrap widely hated water charges.
Her criticism came a day after the Dail failed to form a new government or elect a taoiseach to take over from Fine Gael incumbent Enda Kenny.
Mr Kenny’s alliance with the Labour Party lost its majority in the February 26 elections, largely due to public anger at the new charges for the previously free public utility.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
