Alan Kelly stepping down

I was more bothered when Robbie left Take That.

And just to be clear....I was not at all bothered when Robbie left Take That.

Always going to happen once Ivana Batshit got onto the Dail. I'm surprised she didn't move on him straight away on her first day. She'll imagine she is the person to reconnect the party with the real people of Ireland. And by real people she means the Polo playing Dinner Party Attending, Reisling Drinking masses.

RIP the Labour Party.

I never thought much of him until he became Labour leader. However, with exception of supporting zero covid nonsense (long after it became apparent that was completely unrealistic), he has impressed me. Strikes me as a bright guy. Surprised and a bit disappointed to hear he is going. Think a weak Labour party isn't good for the country when you see the calibre of what fills that vacuum on the left.

I would have voted Labour in the past. They lost their way long before Alan got into the hot seat.

He always struck me as being a very angry man somehow. I reckon there is more to this than "staffing" issues also.

Ivana may be far too "plummy" for many, though who knows?

The left is now in the hands of SF and the numpties in PBP et al. Labour should join with the Social Democrats and be happy families again. The Southern version of the SDLP 😉

I presume Ivana Bacik will take the wheel now.

I know people in Tipp and they'd like Alan kelly but they'd be more of your traditional Labour voter and wouldn't have much time for people like Aodhan. I think it's a party that's really lost and they got lucky in the Dublin Bay South by-election.

Kelly always struck me as being a Loner (understandable given his appalling record in the last government he partook in).

He's essentially spent the past two years acting as unofficial spokesperson for FFGG government, always starting a Dail contribution praising a minister and then proceeding to lambast them, bizzare stuff.

The Labour Party is essentially a lost and rather pointless cause . Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, another government spokesperson is another disaster.

Ivana Bacik likely to get the Nod, she has ability, no doubting that but she's also like Marmite, loved or hated in equal measure.

They say a week in politics is a long time, in labour's case its an eternity and they'll never recover from decisions they made in government, they really should just pack up and leave the stage, it's almost embarrassing at this stage .

Must be family members in tipp you were talking to coz plenty around nenagh cant stand him. Sure in the 2nd last general election he almost lost his seat to the local sinn fein councillor Hes also not welcome in templemore after the whole garda college thing. The amount of local business who lost contracts from the college and directly blame him

Cant see him running in the next election he did say in an interview a while back he didnt see himself staying in politics forever. Think it could have been the Niamh Horan interview

Labour Party is in serious demise especially since SF took the lefty votes.

It's not a big step down as he barely stepped up at all.

Party membership must be dwindling, not quite as dramatic as fall in priesthood numbers ...hardly a big news event now though. At times it takes a while to remember who the leader is ....

He barely got elected at the last 2 elections . Got in on the last count both times. In fact the 2nd last election he almost lost out to seamie morris from the same town who was running for Sinn Fein. SF shot themselves in the foot by getting rid of Seamie Morris since