A Labour Party councillor and general election candidate has resigned from the party.
Martina Genockey, who was selected to run in Dublin South West in the next general election, said politics should be about ideas and activism and not about personalities, personal ambition and privilege.
"However, speaking out recently about the change that I see is needed in the party has opened my mind about the party and led me to feeling it is a place I no longer wish to be," she said in a statement.
She said the Labour Party "in its current form" was not the best place to achieve the aims of eradicating poverty and disadvantage.
Ms Genockey was one of 14 councillors who had sought a meeting with the party leader, Brendan Howlin, over the summer to discuss his leadership and the direction of party policy.
Ms Genockey said she would not contest the local elections next year but will remain a non-party member of South Dublin County Council until those elections are held.
