LEFT-RIGHT FIANNA FÁIL SPLIT

Lisa Chambers

EVERY YEAR since the 2016 general election, Willie O’Dea has led a charge to bolster Fianna Fáil’s working-class base, with the parliamentary party and frontbench dividing on the issue of raises for social welfare recipients, especially pensioners. O’Dea’s Limerick City constituency contains a huge number of low-paid and unemployed voters and O’Dea gets as many… Read more »