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THE FORMER HEAD of Siptu Jack O’Connor has stepped down as a Labour general election candidate in Wicklow.
O’Connor was selected to run in the Wicklow constituency in April.
However, the Labour Party Constituency Executive decided in a meeting last night that Wicklow town based Councillor Paul O’Brien should replace O’Connor on the ticket after O’Connor made the proposal himself to step down.
Labour sources state that “a new generation is coming through” following a good local election.
Commenting on the decision, Jack O’Connor told Wicklownews.net that while Labour has made some progress in rebuilding the party in Wicklow, “we know we still have a distance to go”.
The Labour Party / TwitterPaul O'Brien selected in Wicklow EA signing his pledge with Cllr Conal Kavanagh and @AnneFerrisTD #le14 pic.twitter.com/LuTfGehldY
— The Labour Party (@labour) November 18, 2013
“Winning two seats on the Council and coming so close to a third was an important step. Now that we have local councillors elected again, it is important to take the next step by offering the people a local person who they have already endorsed at the ballot box, as a candidate for the General Election,” he said.
O’Brien said he will be seeking the nomination at a selection convention, stating that the opportunity to run for a Dáil seat “is coming a lot sooner” than he had expected.
At April’s convention where O’Connor was selected, he criticised the government for promising tax cuts, stating that more money is needed to improve public services.
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So he finally took Vincent Brownes advice…
Sliptu in cahoots with the liebour party explains the shafting the working man got during the recession and still been shafted!!!
All the new entrant Teachers nurses Garda the water protesters hammered by liebour and not a sign of sliptu nowhere to be seen awaste of space and a waste of money.
@Robert Phelan: don’t forget they privatised 10% of the bus service and now represent the slaves in Go-Ahead on €28,000 per year but do nothing for them. Big Business is all they are, making money off the backs of hard pressed workers
@Irish Spider-Man: https://youtu.be/sHzbaLc__uY. This was the night he lost all respect. A dinosaur that milked his position for way to long.No doubt he’ll have a comfy retirement on the backs of the working man and woman.
@Irish Spider-Man: tell my why any Dublin City bus driver should be on more than what a lot of young professionals are on.
@Darren Bates: the question you should be asking is why weren’t the young professionals on more then the Dublin city bus drivers!
A complete petrol tanker …..
The writing is on the wall for labour
Caused the greatest damage to workers pay and conditions in the history of the state with his co conspirators Howlin and Noonan. A smoked salmon Stalinist, not a socialist bone in his teeth.
Good
A shleeveen if ever there was one
Sold every worker in the country out no loss
Where was sliptu during the water protests people are mad to be paying that union what does it represent anyways anybody know!! because it ain’t the working man..
He got the hint,not wanted.
Good
Sail off into retirement with your big fat pensions you f– king traitor.
That there is the problem, party over worker, fuxxk off sliptu..
He smelt karma
Hit the road Jack, and don’t you come back no more…..
Jack O’ Connor portrays everything so called Labour party stood for … Baby Blueshirts.
Jack, you have proved yourself a good Union man, but Politics as a retirement hobby, YOU would just end up being a powerless GOLDEN backseat Money Grabber.
@James Keogh: ya a great union man on a massive salary
@Thomas Harrington: As about as straight as a roundabout.
Labour should never be allowed forget what they imposed and tried to impose on the working people in the middle of the last recession, Property tax, USC, Water tax, Carbon tax, increases in Motor tax which they and FG used to waste half a billion euro putting useless water meters into the ground!!!!…..the list goes on…. Labour never to be trusted
Jack read the polls (5%) and the straws in the wind and he knows Labour have no hope of a TD in Wicklow.
I sincerely hope the good folk of Wicklow aren’t supporting this shower.
They are the biggest shower of political prostitutes in Ireland.
They are a disease and need to be eradicated from the country.
NEVER AGAIN !!!!
A relief to the constituency. A man not known for his intellectual promiscuity.
Now there’s a fellow you would not trust. It’s a gut feeling and I only met him once
One of the most stupid men to ever lead a union. Took hundreds of thousands of cream at the very top but couldn’t negotiate his way through a paper bag.
The Labour Party is being flogged still for the failures of the major players leading to the banking collapse.The credit mania, land & property speculation was not promoted by Labour, & the financial collapse that resulted was a disaster for ordinary working folk who did not even participate in the madness. Which party agreed to the bail out & to guarantee the bank debts & bondholders?
Not Labour, but they had to provide a minority role in the Gov’t. that replaced The Fianna Failures.
The state had to have a gov’t. to struggle through the disaster, to negotiate with the EU & European bank, to get bridging finance on the conditions demanded, which was the austerity programme. The people voted for, & continue to vote for the the bigger sinners, & blame the little party for the mess.
The Labour Party is being flogged still for the failures of the major players leading to the banking collapse. The credit mania, land & property speculation was not promoted by Labour, & the financial collapse that resulted was a disaster for ordinary working folk who did not even participate in the madness. Which party agreed to the bail out & to guarantee the bank debts & bondholders?
Not Labour, but they had to provide a minority role in the Gov’t. that replaced The Fianna Failures.
The state had to have a gov’t. to struggle through the disaster, to seek & negotiate with the EU & European bank, & get bridging finance on the conditions demanded, which was the austerity programme. The people voted for, & continue to vote for the the bigger sinners, & blame the little party for the mess.
@William Kelly: Labour should of pulled the plug so William they would of got more respect instead they became liberals..
William Kelly I note after the number of posts, you are really doing your best to justify the labour party .I would ask if your party leader is in touch with the people of Ireland as he was calling out for a minster to apolgise that spoke the truth this week. Trust he was just getting his name out as an election is on the cards. I was taken back when it was revealed that SIPTU finance the labour party each year, no wonder Jack can call the shots .
The Labour Party is being flogged still for the failures of the major players leading to the banking collapse. The credit mania, land & property speculation was not promoted by Labour, & the financial collapse that resulted was a disaster for ordinary working folk who did not even participate in the madness. Which party agreed to the bail out & to guarantee the bank debts & bondholders?
Not Labour, but they had to provide a minority role in the Gov’t. that replaced The Fianna Failures.
The state had to have a gov’t. to struggle through the disaster, to seek & negotiate with the EU & European bank, to get bridging finance on the conditions demanded, which was the austerity programme. The people voted for, & continue to vote for the the bigger sinners, & blame the little party for the mess.
The repetition was caused by a strange message that my post was not in the correct format, whatever that means.
WHO?
Dreadful person. He was a parasite in his years at siptu and then decided he wanted more. Go away jack. Live off your big pension. You v earned it on workers backs
He should maybe join the not for 67, although his colleagues singed up for it.
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