Fianna Fáil must rekindle its long-lost grassroots activism

DAITHÍ DOOLAN says the election was over at Christmas. The newly-elected Sinn Féin councillor for Dublin’s South East Inner City felt confident going before the people.

He could stand on his record as a well-known and hardworking community activist.

Doolan talks the talk alright. Speaking to me after his election victory, he gives me the Sinn Féin line on social housing, criticises the 'unregulated rental sector,' and praises a Ringsend-based city housing initiative which will provide homes at an affordable price.