Lucinda and the babble about reform

I read with interest Alison O’Connor’s piece (Opinion, Jan 10), on Lucinda Creighton’s new public face. One has to agree the emergence of a new political party is somewhat passé after the bailout.

But is that all? The curious thing, is that were it not for the intervention of Eamonn Barnes (former DPP) into the Protection of Life During Pregnancy BIll debate, suggesting an advocacy for the foetus as a right, it seems unlikely that Ms Creighton would be where she is today.

Ms Creighton picked up on this argument but failed to dis-engage when the political outcome became clear. What criteria clicked in at that stage, we do not know, but she persisted in obvious defiance of the Fine Gael leadership, of which she was an important member; with full knowledge of where it would lead. The antics of the Reform Alliance is bizarre, considering the Left in this country, to all intent and purposes, have been reduced to an echo in the distance.