The latest Labour Party casualty claims his former party has lost its way. Former mayor of Fingal Cian O'Callaghan is the latest elected member of Labour to quit the party.

The now Independent Councillor has accused the party of implementing "unfair and unjust policies". And he says the party has deserted their centre left politics.

It is the latest headache Labour who have lost a number of members in recent days.

On Wednesday, a Councillor who secured more than half a quota in Meath-West at the last general election quit the party and joined Fianna Fáil.

Jenny McHugh was formally welcomed into Fianna Fáil by Micheál Martin earlier this week.

She contested the 2011 general election for the Labour party and secured more than half a quota polling almost 5,500 votes in the Meath-West constituency.

Separately MEP Nessa Childers resigned earlier this week from the party and said she would run in the next European elections as an independent.

The MEP has been opposed to the austerity policies of Fine Gael and says Labour should not be supporting them.

Childers has accused Labour of pursuing policies that are a "profoundly immoral way to run our country". Ms. Childers said she will run in European elections next year as an independent candidate.

She also said that she had increasingly found herself discouraged and prevented from advocating a distinctive social democratic position within the Labour party.

Cian O'Callaghan is the latest member of Labour to leave the party due to their opposition to party policy, following Tommy Broughan, Patrick Nulty, Roisin Shortall and Colm Keaveney.