Labour learns a hard lesson

READING Fergus Finlay’s column (May 29), there are some points I wish to raise in relation to the Labour party and its election performance.

I don’t wish to reopen the debate on an electoral strategy that was endorsed by our conference in Tralee. However, unless we learn from the lessons of this election we are destined to repeat the same mistakes in five years’ time.

In light of a drop in our vote and loss of one seat, I find it astonishing that Fergus Finlay still believes that our strategy, which in his own words was a “pitched battle between the Government and the alternative government”, was correct.