People Before Profit members leave party over stance on coalition with Sinn Féin

'We feel that the Red Network has a special voice on the socialist left, a working-class voice, and we think it needs to be heard,' the members said in a statement

The Red Network group praised the work of party members such as Richard Boyd Barrett, above, but said ‘the nature of People Before Profit as an organisation means the fruits of all that work are often wasted’. File Picture: Leah Farrell/© RollingNews.ie

A group of People Before Profit members, including a South Dublin County councillor, have left the party, criticising it for being open to government with Sinn Féin.

In a 3,000-word statement, the group calling itself the Red Network, which includes Clondalkin councillor Madeleine Johansson, says People Before Profit should not go into government with the main opposition party.