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A LEADING LABOUR minister says that Eamon Gilmore is not under pressure, despite the party’s dismal early performance in local and by-elections.
Speaking on RTÉ today, Pat Rabbitte said that he was not aware of any heave against Eamon Gilmore.
“There’s no plot that I’m aware of,” Rabbitte told Sean O’Rourke.
The Minister for Communications said that he didn’t feel that leadership was an issue in Labour’s collapse at the polls, which has seen them fall behind the Green Party in the Dublin West by-election, a seat that Labour won in 2011.
If John The Baptist was leading Labour, we wouldn’t have done any better.
“Eamon Gilmore led us to our best General Election result in 2011.”
Rabbitte said that smaller parties take a disproportionate amount of blame in coalition governments, saying it was a “cast-iron rule” that the minority partner took the blame.
Already today, Brendan Howlin said that the party had been ‘given a good smacking’ by the electorate.
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Sure you need them around there
Why no article about the 20 billion euro social welfare budget???? Was on nearly every drive time radio station…..
@Jonathan Whelan: won’t be on here till Thursday evening I’d say
@Jonathan Whelan: They’ve to wait for someone to write an article first. Can’t paste what you can’t copy.
@⚡ Seánie ⚡: very true! Ohh the amount of comments that willbe removed!!
@Jonathan Whelan: you need to have actual journalistic capacity to do that. This is a half assed amateur joke
@Jonathan Whelan: it’s scheduled for 1am Friday morning. So it can slip through un-noticed.
@Jonathan Whelan: That’s because they are all owned by denis.
More like an arsenal of weapons i’d say!
Embarrassing that the police cannot police a square kilometer of the inner city.
@G Jazz: stick to the jazz kid…
Weapons of mass construction ! Probably should spend more time
Building houses to get people off the streets than dog for buried rifles I mean treasure lol
Surprised bodies weren’t found! , most fire arms are traceable anyway
Surprised bodies weren’t found! There probably gardai rifles lol , most fire arms are traceable
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