Mick Barry: I hope to provide a voice for real change

Newly elected Cork TD Mick Barry is adamant to keep water charges, the health crisis, and the homelessness issue on the agenda of the 32nd Dáil.

Mr Barry claimed a seat for the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit group in the competitive four-seater constituency of Cork North Central.

The first-time TD who became involved in socialism and political activism as a teenager was expelled from the Labour Party along with Clare Daly, Joe Higgins, and Ruth Coppinger for his membership of the Militant tendency in 1989.