Labour in government forgot the working class and its vote collapsed

First, I wish to commend and endorse the comments of Joe O’Donoghue, Co Cork, on the betrayal of the working class by the Labour Party (Irish Examiner, Letters, February 5).

The party was seen as the protector of the working man and the ordinary people. They soon forgot their brief and the many promises made pre-election 2011.

To quote Mr. O’Donoghue: Labour sanctioned the infiltration of workers’ pay packets, pensions and social welfare payments. Some members of the Labour Party were trade union workers and officials who became TDs, but soon forgot the ordinary people they previously represented.