SENATOR CIARAN CANNON SAYS PDS SHOULD BE IN GOVERNMENT

Date Published: 18-Jan-2008

Progessive Democrat Senator, Ciaran Cannon, says the party's best contribution to public life in Ireland is by working IN GovernmentHe was responding to a call by PD founder, Paul Mackay that the party pull out of Government or dissolve, stating that the party is too close to Fianna Fáil and has little or no say in running the countryIn the past fortnight, Senator Ciaran Cannon confirmed that he is considering putting his name forward for the leadership of the flagging PD party or a position similiar to CEOToday, Paul Mackay said he believes that the former County Councillor from Carrabane, could get the support he needs to lead the Progressive Democrats Senator Cannon says in a written statement this afternoon, that the way forward for the PDs is not "introspection and self-absorption from the sidelines"