Mick Clifford: The Green Party is not the enemy of rural Ireland

As the Green Party prepares to elect a new leader, it is worth remembering the importance of its current ethos

Eamon Ryan departs his role having done the State, society at large, and the planet, a service. He is not departing because a reset is required. The party, and the cause it serves, will be poorer without him. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

The leader has departed, long live the leader. Whenever a political party goes through a leadership change, there is a promised reset.

So it was a few short months ago with Simon ‘Duracel bunny’ Harris. He brought oodles of energy that made things happen fast and injected confidence into his party. Following the recent election results, the reset is coming along nicely for him and Fine Gael.