# labour-party - Today’s News
# labour-party - Sunday 19 May, 2013
The public expenditure minister says suggestions that Labour are in political trouble are premature.
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# labour-party - Sunday 5 May, 2013
A former IMF head of the mission for Ireland has said an entire reliance on austerity was not the right move – yet we’re still following that road. David Cronin asks why.
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# labour-party - Thursday 18 April, 2013
The party’s national executive today met and agreed to hold its conference on the 29 and 30 November despite calls from party chairman Colm Keaveney for an earlier date.
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# labour-party - Sunday 14 April, 2013
Robert Dowds made the statement when calling for those who had lost the whip to rejoin the fold.
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The Irish electorate is both a strange beast and an angry and vengeful one at the moment, writes Gary Murphy, who says while the people might be punishing Labour, it will not herald a new political force.
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# labour-party - Friday 12 April, 2013
In an email to party members this evening the Labour leader insists that his party has helped bring Ireland from “a state of economic chaos to stability.”
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# labour-party - Thursday 11 April, 2013
Talk about being caught rapid.
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With the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste unavailable, it will be Education Minister Ruairà Quinn who attends the late British Prime Minister’s funeral next week.
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# labour-party - Monday 8 April, 2013
An announcement from the Tánaiste that charges will not be implemented next January has drawn criticism from Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin.
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# labour-party - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Up to 100 members of the party gathered in Dublin this morning to demand change. They want to see more Labour policies implemented in government.
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The MEP will address a meeting of the Campaign for Labour Policies group in Dublin today which is likely to hear plenty of criticism of the junior coalition party.
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# labour-party - Friday 5 April, 2013
The MEP’s decision to resign from the parliamentary party was met with disappointment and criticism from her Labour colleagues today.
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A suggestion that the Tánaiste has been seeking support for his leadership from the parliamentary party has been denied by Labour and a number of its TDs though many did not return calls today.
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Nessa Childers and Eamon Gilmore – there’s no hugging it out this time.
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# labour-party - Friday 29 March, 2013
The Tánaiste and Labour leader says his party will “have to do some reflection” on its dramatic slump in the by-election.
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The junior partner in government saw its vote collapse in Meath East. How do you feel about how it’s performing in power?
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# labour-party - Thursday 28 March, 2013
All the drama from the count centre in Ashbourne as Helen McEntee took the Dáil seat in Meath East.
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# labour-party - Monday 25 March, 2013
Labour chief whip Emmet Stagg has harshly criticised Phil Hogan over the property tax exemptions, saying the Environment Minister has made a ‘dog’s dinner’ of the way in which the tax is being administered.
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# labour-party - Saturday 23 March, 2013
The poll in tomorrow’s Sunday Business Post puts the two main opposition parties behind Fine Gael while Labour’s support has jumped by one percentage point in the last month.
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# labour-party - Saturday 16 March, 2013
The Millward Brown poll for the Sunday Independent also has good news for Fianna Fáil.
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# labour-party - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Four independent candidates have filed paperwork to run against seven candidates from parties big and small.
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# labour-party - Saturday 9 March, 2013
With the by-election less than three weeks away TheJournal.ie spoke to the main candidates this week to find out what they’re hearing on the doorsteps and what they’re telling voters…
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# labour-party - Friday 8 March, 2013
John O’Connell died this morning at the age of 83.
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# labour-party - Thursday 7 March, 2013
TheJournal.ie has learned that Labour didn’t plan to pick its Meath East candidate for another fortnight – after the new deadline.
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Helen McEntee is “virtually certain” to be the Fine Gael candidate in Meath East ahead of the party’s nomination convention in Kells this evening.
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Writing on TheJournal.ie this morning, the Labour leader insists that abortion legislation wil be introduced this year.
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# labour-party - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Voting will take place in the constituency between 8am and 9pm on 27 March.
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# labour-party - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
The date has been announced today meaning there are less than three weeks to go until voters in Meath East decide who they want to fill the seat vacated by the late Shane McEntee.
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# labour-party - Sunday 10 February, 2013
April has been mooted as the possible month for the by-election to be held with Fianna Fáil hoping to capitalise on its growing popularity but could the promissory note deal change things?
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# labour-party - Friday 8 February, 2013
The Ipsos MRBI poll in tomorrow’s Irish Times puts FF on 26pc, with Fine Gael on 25pc and Labour down to 10pc.
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# labour-party - Sunday 3 February, 2013
Labour will be the casualty of this government because it secured votes by promising things the party could never deliver, writes Adrian Grant.
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# labour-party - Saturday 26 January, 2013
The latest Sunday Business Post/Red C poll shows Sinn Féin’s share of the vote rising by 3 per cent in a fortnight.
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# labour-party - Saturday 19 January, 2013
The Labour chairman has been assured his position is safe following a meeting of the party’s executive board in Dublin today in the wake of his vote against the Budget last month.
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# labour-party - Friday 18 January, 2013
The Labour Party chairman said on radio this morning that Eamon Gilmore did “everything possible to ensure” he wasn’t elected chair.
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# labour-party - Monday 14 January, 2013
Keaveney, who voted against the Budget, wants the issue of his chairmanship sorted as soon as possible amid rumblings that Labour wants to oust him but an April conference is unlikely.
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# labour-party - Thursday 10 January, 2013
Support for Fine Gael has dropped slightly while support for Labour remains steady in the latest Red C poll for Paddy Power released today.
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# labour-party - Sunday 6 January, 2013
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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# labour-party - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# labour-party - Sunday 16 December, 2012
At least one Labour senator says he may vote against the Social Welfare Bill. One more defect could defeat the government.
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# labour-party - Saturday 15 December, 2012
The Labout TD said ministers and party members were attempting to distract from problematic issues in the budget.
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