Mary Croke.

Mary croke resigns from labour party

The Labour Party's only candidate in County Cavan in this year's May local elections has resigned her membership of the party, because she claims 'they are not listening to the people'.

Mary Croke of Cavan Town was unsuccessful in the party's bid for a council seat on the new 18-seat Cavan County Council last May. She confirmed to The Anglo-Celt today (Tuesday) that she had sent in her resignation letter last week.
Her letter of resignation reads: “I'm asking for my Membership of the party to be cancelled and I formally resign the position of area representative for Cavan area.
I feel like the party has lost its way and has stopped listening to the people it was elected to serve.
'I find it now too difficult to defend the party on issues where I have made promises to the electorate and they have then not been upheld.'

The mother-of-three polled 187 first preference votes in an election that saw only candidates from the traditional local powers Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin elected while a national backlash against Labour was in full swing.
When asked why she had resigned, Mary Croke told The Anglo-Celt that she in on the committee of ‘Cavan Says No to Water Charges’ and it has “got to the stage that the trust is gone. I can’t stand up for them. I know there is job creation. I know they are doing good things. In Cavan, they are taking everything and giving nothing back to the county. There is nothing you could sell on the door for Labour at the moment.”
When asked if she was going to stay in politics and join another party, Ms Croke said that after 13 years with one party, she is 'not even considering looking at another one' at the present time.