Stephen Donnelly: Social Democrats just wasn’t working for me

Stephen Donnelly has refused to rule out joining another party after leaving the Social Democrats. The Wicklow TD announced his resignation from the fledgling party yesterday, claiming it “just wasn’t working” for him.

His former colleagues rounded on him, claiming he was not committed and did not work hard enough to establish the party.

Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy said Mr Donnelly, a founding member of the party, had been “disengaged for some time” and had not put in the hard, “non-glamorous” work required to get a new political group off the ground.