Former Green party senator Deirdre de Burca has said the party did have in place an agreement which would see Cabinet posts rotated between parliamentary party members.

FIANNA Fáil TDs have made clear their opposition to coalition partners the Greens getting an extra junior minister in the forthcoming reshuffle.

FORMER senator Deirdre de Búrca accused the Green party, led by Environment Minister John Gormley, of having “lost its way”.

MINISTER John Gormley’s future in Cabinet is in question after his party refused to deny the existence of an internal Green Party deal to rotate ministerial positions.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley has confirmed he has received a third report into the dealings of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.

DID no one think of nominating our TDs for the BAFTAs?

IN the wake of former minister Willie O’Dea’s ignominious exit from the the Cabinet, Taoiseach Brian Cowen now has a good opportunity to appoint a qualified person who is not just a party hack from a convenient constituency.

THE Taoiseach angrily hit back at accusations his Government was “riven by internal tension” in the wake of claims that Trevor Sargent was forced from office as part of a Fianna Fáil plot to avenge Willie O’Dea’s fall.

ON the same day that they lost a minister, the Greens gained a senator.

THE Government has indicated it has nothing to fear from the publication of what is expected to be a damning report on the troubled Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA).

Former Green Party Senator Deirdre de Burca has revealed the details of an email to the Environment Minister John Gormley about a controversial report into the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.

The chairman of the Green Party has said he does not expect the report on the activities of the Dublin Dockland Development Authority to destabilise the Government.

The Environment Minister is under pressure to publish a reportedly "explosive" report on the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.

A POTENTIALLY explosive report on the activities of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) which recorded a €213 million deficit last year will be published, Environment Minister John Gormley has insisted.

GREEN Party leader John Gormley will come under further pressure this week when the Opposition make demands in the Dáil for the immediate publication of a potentially damning report on the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA).

BRIAN COWEN is facing an enormous test of his political pragmatism. Tribal to his core, the sacrifice of Willie O’Dea, one of his Fianna Fáil family, to satisfy the demands of his Green coalition partners must have been like a hammer blow to Cowen.

HAVING on occasion given out through clenched teeth and in language liberally interspersed with four-letter Anglo-Saxon about some of the stuff that Terry Prone writes, I must now congratulate her on her column (February 15) about recent high-profile political resignations.

DEIRDRE de Búrca was nominated to the Seanad by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in 2007 after failing to get elected to the Dáil for Wicklow.

FORMER Green senator Deirdre de Búrca said party leader John Gormley had assured her the Taoiseach promised a Green choice in the inner circle of Ireland’s new EU commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn in return for the party supporting the appointment.

WHATEVER Deirdre de Búrca’s motives for resigning her Senate seat and Green party membership, I cannot share her view that Fianna Fáil is “running rings” around the Greens.

Former Green Senator Deirdre de Burca has claimed the Greens only agreed to support Maire Geoghegan Quinn as Ireland's EU Commissioner in return for Miss de Burca getting a job in the Commissioner's cabinet.

The Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has rejected claims made by former Green party Senator Deirdre de Burca that Fianna Fáil have been stone-walling Green party policies.

GREEN Party chairman, Dan Boyle, has said Fianna Fáil did everything it could to get his former party colleague Déirdre de Búrca a job with the European Commission.

THE consensus arising from the departure of George Lee, contributed to in a minor way by the exit of Déirdre de Búrca, is that the political system has failed. Never was a consensus more wrong. The events of the last week demonstrate the political system working beautifully.

Junior coalition partner the Green Party today accused former senator Deirdre de Burca of threatening to damage the party if she was not given a senior EU post.

Former Green Party leader Trevor Sargent says it is time to "move on" after the resignation of Deirdre de Burca.

Green Party deputy leader Mary White has described as "deplorable" the behaviour of Deirdre de Burca, who resigned this week from the Senate and from the party saying she believed it had become an extension of Fianna Fail.

JOHN Gormley was left reeling last night after one of his own senators accused him of selling out Green principles for the trappings of power because he cannot stand up to Brian Cowen.

A RATTLED Green leadership last night moved to try and rubbish claims of spinelessness in its dealings with Fianna Fáil.

IN theory, Déirdre de Búrca’s decision to run in Dublin in last year’s European elections shouldn’t have caused much of a stir, given that she had grown up in Loughlinstown.

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley was accused by the Opposition of hiding a report on the operations of the troubled Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for political reasons.

Text of letter from Senator Déirdre de Búrca to Green Party leader John Gormley

SENATOR Déirdre De Búrca has shown with understated brilliance how an honourable person resigns from a party she can no longer be a part of with dignity.

Senator Déirdre de Búrca’s resignation from the Green Party and Seanad Éireann yesterday sent shockwaves through Irish politics similar to those caused by the resignation of George Lee from Fine Gael and Dáil Éireann at the start of the week.

Green Party leader John Gormley has hit back at criticism of himself and his party by former Senator Deirdre de Burca, insisting her remarks are "entirely without foundation".

The Green Party has today insisted that it remains united in the wake of the resignation of high-profile senator Deirdre de Burca today.

Senator Deirdre De Burca has resigned from the Green Party and the Seanad.

THE Green Party has browbeaten a key concession from Fianna Fáil earning the right to nominate a former councillor as one of two new senators.

Green Party leader John Gormley today asked Irish voters to say Yesto the Lisbon Treaty in the referendum on October 2 next.

The Green Party have voted to campaign for a 'Yes' in the Lisbon Treaty referendum at their special conference in Dublin today.

EFFORTS to repair a fraught relationship between the Green Party and Fianna Fáil has begun after an embarrassing protest by the junior coalition’s two senators.

The Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan has given his full backing to Green Senators Dan Boyle and Deirdre de Burca.

THE Government came close to embarrassment yesterday when it escaped defeat in a Dáil vote by a narrow margin and lost an initial count in a Seanad vote.

SINCE the emperor bought new clothes, few have been so stark in their political self-delusion as the Green Party this week in their insistence that the relevance of their agenda, to save the world, will help save them from their near brush with death in last week’s elections.