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(17,559 posts)...and then set up a new party after that.
From September 1, 2012:
[url]http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0901/335842-clare-daly-socialist-party/[/url]
Clare Daly resigns from the Socialist Party after row over her support for Mick Wallace
Dublin North TD Clare Daly has resigned from the Socialist Party following a row over her political connection to Independent TD Mick Wallace.
Ms Daly handed in her resignation letter yesterday and said she will "redesignate" herself as a United Left Alliance TD.
She had been criticised by some in the party for her support for Mr Wallace after it emerged that his company had made a false VAT declaration to the Revenue Commissioners.
Ms Daly said: "I believe it is time to prioritise the building of the ULA."
From April 25, 2013:
[url]http://www.thejournal.ie/united-left-new-political-party-882971-Apr2013/[/url]
Two TDs setting up new United Left political party
A new left-wing political party is set to be launched next month following the apparent collapse of the United Left Alliance.
TDs Clare Daly and Joan Collins are set to launch United Left sometime in May, TheJournal.ie has learned, but many of the Dáils most high-profile left-wing members, including Joe Higgins and Richard Boyd-Barrett, will not be involved.
This follows the apparent break-up of the United Left Alliance (ULA) an umbrella body of the Socialist Party, People Before Profit and the Workers and Unemployed Action Group amid divisions over the advancement of the organisation.
The split became public last September when Daly resigned from the Socialist Party, saying it was time to prioritise the building of the ULA amid criticism from the Socialists of her links to controversial TD Mick Wallace.