INDEPENDENT DUBLIN councillor Bronwyn Maher has moved to distance herself from a loose alliance of Independent councillors, community activists and environmentalists.
Although she attended a press conference held by the group earlier this week, she has said she has no plans to join it.
Ms Maher’s name had been included as a speaker on a statement from the group, but she did not speak at the conference.
The group, which includes Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit Alliance and former Green Party councillor Chris O’Leary, had said the Budget was a “shocking assault on the poor and vulnerable” and had called for nationalisation of banks.
It aims to form a lose alliance of Independent councillors and candidates in advance of the local elections in June, which will be put on a more formal footing after the elections.
In a statement yesterday, Ms Maher, a former member of the Green Party, said she was not a member of any formal or informal alliance of Independent councillors or of any other political grouping or movement.
She had attended a meeting with the group because she was interested in exploring its plans to set up a formal alliance after the local elections, she said, but she would not now be part of that.
“For the record, I am an Independent councillor for the Clontarf ward on Dublin City Council and at present I have absolutely no plans or intentions to join or become associated with any political party, movement or alliance,” Ms Maher said.
