Green Party contest kicks off as Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin make their pitches to be leader

Catherine Martin says the party has to avoid at all costs lecturing rural Ireland from South Dublin. Image: Leah Farrell Catherine Martin says the party has to avoid at all costs lecturing rural Ireland from South Dublin. Image: Leah Farrell THE GREEN PARTY’S leadership contest kicked off online this evening with the first hustings event with current leader Eamon Ryan and deputy leader Catherine Martin.

The last time the party was in government “perhaps that threat wasn’t there… maybe we should have walked earlier”, said Martin. She said people that have “demonstrated their ability” and are “rising stars” who have worked hard in the party should be awarded for that. “Not just because they are female”, but because they able, she said.

She added that the idea has been put forward that the party is anti-rural, with Martin stating that sometimes the party hasn’t helped itself. Rural Ireland is key in the delivery of change, said Martin.Ryan promised to get out of Dublin before the end of July, to travel to Cork to see how the government can deliver the proposed Bus Connects project there.

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