On May 27, 2019, images of a beaming Ciaran Cuffe inside the RDS, captured by the media scrum crowded around the newly-minted MEP, defined the green wave period about to hit Irish politics.  Standing close by Cuffe that evening, but staying firmly in the background in quiet satisfaction, was the head of the party’s electoral task force, Roderic O’Gorman. The election of Cuffe and his green colleague Grace O’Sullivan, together with the party’s best-ever showing at the local elections, was a badge of honour for the law lecturer and then Castleknock councillor, and the perfect sign-off to eight years as…

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