Greens vow to fight back after ‘deal with devil’ decimates party

IT was, in the words of the Greens’ Ciarán Cuffe in 2007, akin to “a deal with the devil”.

And the consequences of his party’s decision to enter coalition with Fianna Fáil were hammered home in the election as the Greens lost every one of their six TDs.

Green leader John Gormley lost his seat in Dublin South East, as did deputy leader Mary White in Carlow-Kilkenny. Mr Cuffe suffered the same fate in Dun Laoghaire, as did Paul Gogarty in Dublin Mid West, who conceded defeat early on Saturday morning via social networking site Twitter.