Lessons to be Learned from Elections

national | politics / elections | other press Wednesday June 24, 2009 00:33 by Con

éirígí analysis of the recent local and European elections around the country.

The dust has now settled on what was presented by sections of the establishment media as an ‘epoch-defining’ election.

The 2009 local elections in the Twenty-Six Counties and European elections across the country took place against the backdrop of a capitalist crisis, mounting unemployment, bank bail-outs and cuts to essential public services.