Like all the parties which have been extant since the Civil War, the Labour Party has never shied away from describing itself as a republican party. She also laid out arguments for just transition, renewables, sustainable and public transport that could have come straight out of a Green Party manifesto. In several interviews, and in her speech, Bacik outlined the possibilities for a united left approach in Irish politics. But such a united left has its limit. In effect, they circumscribed the alliance to only three parties, Labour and the other parties to which it is closely aligned politically: the Social Democrats and the Green Party.
