Conor Daye

Earlier this month, I had the honour of being elected chair of the Ross Connolly Branch of @labour. This covers the Greystones LEA, including my own village of Kilcoole. Ross was an amazing trade unionist, a historian and also James Connolly's grandson. Hope we do his name proud

@Alejandro_SocEU Not Labour in Ireland? 😥

More or less, the parties I support in each European country would look something like this. And yes, the reasons vary a lot: ideological conviction, tactical voting, choosing the lesser evil, national context, political culture, etc.

Vote Ogbu in Galway today please and thanks

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS

@isobelr__ If elected he'll challenge Martin for leadership of the party?

Dublin Central should vote for John Stephens - he is like our Andy Burnham 🙏

No issue in any of 27 EU countries is as important an issue to the electorate as Housing is to the Irish people 59% say it's a top 2 issue A further 46% say cost of living 1 in 50 say defence (it's completely manufactured) (1 in 20 say crime)

@Dawson40M Triggered?

@ConorDaye Far left crustie obsessed with Hamas terrorists over Irish people. 🤮

Labour calls for Galway West byelection candidate Helen Ogbu to be included in RTÉ debate irishtimes.com/politics/2026/… via @IrishTimesPol

Gaillimh Ogbu 🌹

A bill that would impose a three-year ban on no-fault evictions has passed its first stage after not being opposed in the Dáil rte.ie/news/politics/…

@RightWingCope There is a US Pre-Clearance Area in Dublin Airport that is staffed by American border control officers who frequently ask people travelling to the US to unlock their phones so they can search them. Ironic since Irish police would (to my knowledge anyway) need a warrant to do that

also by the way, DHS can legally seize your phone with basically no warrant if you're re-entering the country even if you're a citizen. Nick Shirley would never tell you this though

Nick Shirley is being TORTURED by Cuban police as officers force him to read a page of Harry Potter without making a mistake 💀

I’m astounded that @KemiBadenoch used footage of soldiers in Derry during Bloody Sunday in this video promoting the actions of the British Army. It’s disgusting, deeply offensive and an insult to the innocent civil rights protestors who soldiers killed that day.

"A country that is, right now, seriously debating whether its young people should live in sheds in their parents’ gardens." - The Failure Premium.

@ciarannugent Why pay taxes when you can take out another IMF loan?

'Buenos Aires or Berlin'

Getting Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael out of government is a human rights issue at this point

Life expectancy measures wealth and demographics, not health infrastructure which is in here. Ireland has the highest bed occupancy in the OECD, 43% fewer beds than the EU average, 900,000 on waiting lists, and 75% of GP lists closed to new patients. Education attainment is high yes, but 35,000 of those graduates emigrated last year because they can't afford to live here. The graph measures what the state builds and delivers, not outcomes that succeed despite it.

Government COULD have put together an innovative and progressive package of direct supports. It COULD have regulated prices and profit margins in the energy sector. INSTEAD, they opted for regressive tax cuts and subsidies to employers. Workers abandoned AGAIN by Government

@Ireland_Votes Labour also voting no confidence

59 no-confidence votes confirmed. Majority is 88.

@jackcummins_9 I get you but people always moan though. Ultimately, power has been with the centre since pretty much the creation of the state. As a non-centrist, I'd take a few protests if it meant I got a left government for once lol

@ConorDaye Yeah I would say so, I just mean Ireland feels like it’s consistently at odds from either far end of the spectrum and it’s becoming a pain for people in the middle who just want to get on with it. There’s an anti establishment rhetoric disturbing day to day life.

Tough time to be a centrist in Ireland