"Labour's Way' RTE documentary Tuesday 26 June

[Dr. FIVE]

Well that was fairly rubbish tbh, archive footage aside

[PaddyJoe]

Well that was fairly rubbish tbh, archive footage aside

Suffered from the same malaise as the first part. I couldn't see the wood for the trees.
Too much focus on the individuals but very little context or background.

[Baron von Biffo]

Niamh Puirseil UCD, author of http://www.irchss.ie/featured-title/...h-labour-party

Ah yes, thanks. Wasn't she on VB a few times?

[Baron von Biffo]

Well that was fairly rubbish tbh, archive footage aside

Suffered from the same malaise as the first part. I couldn't see the wood for the trees.
Too much focus on the individuals but very little context or background.

Yip. Pretty poor effort on the whole.

[Dr. FIVE]

Pretty much, would have been easy to get into the nitty gritty considering it was a program about the Labour party on a Tuesday night. Anyone watching knows the story, was looking for and able to understand the real meat. Given this dealt with the recent past all we had was a load of settling old scores and current shower talking ***** trying to cover their arses

I love this thing of SF and the ULA going to do in the Labour Party and not the fact they are cravenly implementing IMF/FG policy

[Dr. FIVE]

Ah yes, thanks. Wasn't she on VB a few times?

Yeah, does the history show on radio one too

[riposte]

By going it alone Ruairi Quinn destroyed Fine Gael reducing them to 30 seats.

By making the Mullingar Pact... Pat Rabbite gave Fine Gael the kiss of life boosting them back up to 50 seats.

Gilmore tried to do the same as Quinn... but he was stymied by the death of Fianna Fail.

[goatstoe]

Poor documentary that, the question wasn't explored about Labour's prevalence for taking up a secondary role in coalition at almost every given opportunity. The question of their ambition to ever lead an Irish government - they'd need to lead the opposition first to do that probably - wasn't explored. What do Labour stand for now and does the legacy of Connolly and Larkin resonate in today's Irish Labour Party at all? These questions were not broached, very disappointing.

In a two part doc that brushed over huge swathes of the Irish Labour Party's history, somehow they managed to find a minute or two to dwell on Adie Roche's failure to win the Presidential election in '97. In contrast there was little or no mention of Michael D Higgins actually winning the Presidential Election last year, when did RTE make this programme?

A badly thrown together programme, like as if it was a reeling in the years of the Irish Labour Party. Very poor standard of documentary making.