Renua will renew Lucinda’s career, but that’s all

Meaningless name and lack of policies suggest this new party will be aimless. The launch has raised Creighton’s profile in the run-up to the general election, but this is not the heralding of a new dawn in Irish politics, writes Shaun Connolly

HAS Lucinda Creighton launched a new era, or just another platform from which to hear her?

The heat-seeking human self-publicity missile that is Ms Creighton insisted her much-anticipated party, Renua, was not a vanity project, but a landmark moment in renewing Irish politics.