Dick Spring: Voters encouraged to sleepwalk into more of the same old, same old

The public doesn’t need another five years of a book-keeping Government, writes former Labour leader Dick Spring

There have been massive failures in the outgoing Government, and no admission of those failures and no plan to put any of it right, writes former tánaiste Dick Spring. Picture: Don MacMonagle

We are sleepwalking. Sleepwalking into five more years of the same old, same old. At the end of it, there will be more alienation, more poverty and hardship, and more unnecessary suffering in a more and more uncertain world.

I’ve been out and about as much as I can supporting Labour candidates. I’ve seen two different phenomena.