The Social Democrats

[Statsman]

As someone who has voted for them a couple of times, but not for their Presidential candidate (to my shame, the first time in my life I didn't vote when I could), I watched Holy Cairns' keynote address on Saturday with great interest. A couple of interesting ideas, like giving people like me who have money sitting in a deposit account doing nothing a chance to invest in solving the housing issue, which I'd do in a heartbeat.

Also, interesting to note that they intend to run a candidate in every constituency in the country in the next GE, firmly killing off any idea of a United Left approach. Let's see if they manage to find enough decent people.

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2026/0 ... onference/

[Lumpy Talbot]

As someone who has voted for them a couple of times, but not for their Presidential candidate (to my shame, the first time in my life I didn't vote when I could), I watched Holy Cairns' keynote address on Saturday with great interest. A couple of interesting ideas, like giving people like me who have money sitting in a deposit account doing nothing a chance to invest in solving the housing issue, which I'

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