Cork city councillor says she will run in European elections

CORK City South-East councillor Lorna Bogue will be running in the upcoming European elections for Ireland South.

Ms Bogue, the founding member of then An Rabharta Glas party, explained: “After five years of being a councillor in Cork city, I know that real politics doesn’t take place in a council chamber, but in workplaces, communities and homes every single day.

“I want to be a voice for two million people across the Ireland South constituency and to use my time as MEP to lay the groundwork for mass representation of workers and carers in Ireland.”

Her nomination papers were signed by more than 60 firefighters, librarians, artists, trade unionists, socialists, workers and carers, and Ms Bogue said: “I am looking forward to advancing their concerns in the campaign and as MEP as my principal priority.”

Speaking at the Cork Trade Union Council demonstration on May 1, International Workers’ Day, Ms Bogue said that she is running in the European election to provide a platform for the political representation of workers and carers across the country.

She said: “Workers and carers do not have mainstream political representation at a time when housing and the cost of living are pressurising people like never before.

“It is increasingly clear that both government and opposition parties are content to allow crises to hit hardest the people who can afford it the least in order to maintain a business environment for foreign direct investments.”

She called for a response to this and to “the rightward shift in the political discourse, which speaks to the problems people experience in their everyday lives”.