AAA candidate Mick Barry targets Kathleen Lynch’s seat

The Anti Austerity Alliance (AAA) is targeting Labour junior minister Kathleen Lynch’s seat in Cork North Central as part of a concerted national bid with People Before Profit (PBP) to win seven ‘principled left’ seats, which would secure official Dáil grouping status and speaking rights.

The AAA’s national director of elections, Joe Higgins, set out the strategy at a press conference in the constituency yesterday and slated the Labour Party’s record on housing.

He insisted that the AAA-PBP shared platform approach to the election offers a credible radical alternative but he ruled out going into government with Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, or Labour.