Ex-Green labels Boyle a hypocrite

FORMER Green party councillor Chris O’Leary has labelled his ex-colleague Dan Boyle a “hypocrite” who is mimicking the views of former members of the Government party to save himself from European election disaster.

Over the weekend the Greens chairman and Ireland South MEP election candidate said there was a need to change the Programme for Government, and that Fianna Fáil should accept that policies of the past decade have contributed to the situation the country is now facing.

However, accusing the Cork-based senator of mirroring concerns voiced just months previously by councillors who left the party – a move Mr Boyle heavily criticised at the time – Independent Councillor Chris O Leary said his former colleague’s comments were hypocritical and only voiced because “the writing’s on the wall for the Greens.”