People Before Profit

I mean, you have the far left.

The far left in Ireland has about 2% of the vote, people before profit, etc.

You've got a far right that is Thankfully, still has very little support in Ireland, obviously stronger.

You have a soft right

And they say, where is my tax dollars? going on polls you've heard me say this many times before but I'll say it again I mean it is kind of obviously just a snapshot they're only a

snapshot no no

but it's an important snapshot because we get we get polls like this and then at general election time and certainly for the last four five general elections in a row housing and health have been the two issues where people come out of the polling station they're asked by pollsters you know what was your number one choice and they say things like health or housing sometimes then they say party affiliation and like on Fianna Fáil or Fianna Gael or People Before Profit or Sinn Féin or whatever but certainly I do think there is a trend and I've seen it I think over the course of the last year with budget last year there's a very good piece by Megan O'Brien in the Business Post where it says that from within government last year's budget fell flat and we want to This will not fall flat to be sort of newsworthy for the right reasons.

But I suspect for most people at the end of the day won't spend hours reading online what's happening or listening to shows or TV.

Yeah.

So there was a massive community mobilization, um, including, you know, like, uh, Sinn Féin were there, um, People Before Profit, um, politicians-

Mm

... as well as, like, the community.

The, the job at moments of peril and when communities are in, um, severe distress as the community of Garvaghy Road have been for the past number of days, is to show leadership and to provide leadership, and that's what Michelle O'Neill and Sinn Féin representatives, but not only Sinn Féin representatives, did over the weekend.

We, we also had representatives from the SDLP, from People Before Profit, from into, from the Social Democrats, who quite rightly, um, stood up for a community's right, uh, given under the Good Friday Agreement, to live free from sectarian harassment.

Um, the decision of the Parades Commission is just illogical, and any rational person would have known that it would have opened up old wounds-

Mm

I don't think they do support that.

No, I, I, I think s- certainly the, th- they've been banging on about the, the fuel, looking for reductions, and certainly in terms of the carbon tax, even People Before Profit, as I saw Joe Daly a number of weeks ago on a Saturday looking to remove the carbon tax.

You know, that wouldn't have been something to, that you would have associated with People Before Profit.

Mm-hmm.

But you are now-

... that the fact of the matter is the likes of all of the parties, but those parties who like to think that they're, you know, in favor of tackling climate change, couldn't care less about it, maybe other than the Green Party.

Sinn-

People Before Profit don't, Sinn Féin don't.

Greens are down 1% at 3%.

People Before Profit is on 3%.

They're up 1%.

AIM2 is on 5%.

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Now, People Before Profit has raised concerns about what it describes as a potential MAGA beachhead following the establishment of an Irish campus by a US Catholic university at Mount Melleray.

Uh, earlier this year, the Florida-based Ave Maria University announced plans to open a campus at the site following discussions with the Cistercian, uh, Order.