Ivana Bacik locks her bike on Baggot Street where she has arrived to record a podcast with The Currency. Bacik is a familiar presence on these streets and elsewhere in her Dublin Bay South constituency. The demands of revitalising the Labour Party and the need to keep her seat in the constituency go hand in hand. Her voice is a little hoarse, a consequence, she says, of “testy exchanges” with the Taoiseach in the Dail the day before. Bacik has no interest in what she has called “shouty politics” which some may say is one of the reasons for Labour’s…

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