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WATCH: Burton says she hasn't talked with Gilmore about 'rift'

The Social Protection Minister was speaking to TheJournal.ie at the Labour Party national conference in Killarney at the weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqS07AkSo7g

JOAN BURTON HAS said she has not spoken with Eamon Gilmore about reported tensions between the pair that were the subject of considerable media coverage earlier this year.

The Social Protection Minister was speaking to TheJournal.ie at the Labour Party conference in Killarney last weekend.

An apparently ongoing rift between the Labour leader and deputy leader was detailed in The Price of Power by Pat Leahy with one anecdote noting how Burton had stored the infamous ‘Gilmore for Taoiseach’ posters in her father’s garden shed.

Asked whether reports of a rift between them had been overblown, Burton repeated previous comments on her relationship with Gilmore.

“Myself and Eamon have always had a very good working relationship,” she said. “He is the leader of the Labour Party I am very happy to support him. He’s been really happy to support me.”

Watch more in the video above

Joan Burton: ‘Eamon Gilmore has always been supportive of me and I am for him’

Burton: I’m perfectly happy to support Eamon Gilmore

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    Jul 9th 2021, 8:52 PM

    This is good news.

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    Jul 9th 2021, 9:23 PM

    @Ann Nugent: UN designated terrorist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a rebranded version of the Al Qeada affiliate al-Nusra Front, controls the towns and villages around the crossing, they tax cross border trade. The only route in an out of Rebel held Idlib province.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_al-Sham

    “The most significant shift in HTS economic policy occurred in July 2017, when the group took over the Bab al-Hawa crossing, one of the biggest sources of revenue in NW Syria and a particularly strategic acquisition in terms of the relationship with Turkey.”

    https://www.mei.edu/publications/economics-hayat-tahrir-al-sham

    A later agreement turned over Bab al-Hawa crossing to civilian control but HTS still controls the towns and villages nearby, they will continue to tax cross-border trade. This is why Russia wanted the crossing closed.

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    Jul 10th 2021, 12:04 AM

    This is good news but the people in these awful camps need to be moved on to decent conditions and hope for the future.

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    Jul 9th 2021, 9:31 PM

    Ah the UN great bunch of lads, they can get the USA and Russia to sort themselves out and work together, some job like. It’s a good record but I still think they’d struggle to sort out Clare hurling, but sure might be worth a go if they fancy a challenge, just add to the drama and dysfunction even more, I’ll go get the pop corn!

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