Article withdrawn on March 30 2022

By Stephen Harris, News Editor, The Conversation

On Tuesday March 29, The Conversation published an article entitled “Ivana Bacik: Labour is small in Ireland but it’s worth keeping an eye on the party’s new leader.” Following review by senior editors, we have since decided to remove the article from the site after finding that it did not meet our editorial guidelines.

We found that the author’s affiliation with the Irish Labour Party (which was disclosed, in part, prior to publication), along with the article’s tone and content, called into question whether it was sufficiently free from political bias.

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