Time to honestly name and shame the groups who did nothing on Nice

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday October 19, 2002 15:47 by Independent

Finian McGrath fought an excellent campaign against Nice, and Seamus Healy also unlike many others,

Finian had a great campaign, he had up to 20 people out some nights in his constituency. This can be contrasted with the ‘real revolutionaries’ in the swp who contributed nothing except hot air, and did no work in working class areas. The Sp had a very poor campaign as a party, their performance was as bad as in Nice 1, no leafleting door to door worth talking about and no posters even. Joe Higgins however did fine work in bringing some unenthuastic groups such as SF together. SF contributed the grand total of €100 to the alliance that Joe Higgins brought together on Nice, this was to cover posters and 10,000 leaflets! Needless to say it did not cover the cost of any posters whatsoever. This €100 was to cover 6 TD’s which meant that they contributed less than Finian McGrath or Seamus Healy did out of their TD expenses.