EXTRA pay and salary increments for public service workers cannot be touched under the Croke Park deal until it is reviewed next year, Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte said.

The Labour leader has said the latest opinion poll results are a considerable boost for the party.

Enda Kenny and Pat Rabbitte will give their assessment of the first few days of the General Election campaign this morning.

LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte paid tribute last night to the party’s former national organiser, Pat Magner, who drew the curtain on almost five decades in politics at a function in Leinster House.

The Labour Leader Pat Rabbitte has dubbed the Justice Minister’s attack on Richard Bruton today as an “intolerant tantrum” and said he is fooling himself over the number of gardaí in Dublin.

NONE of the 11 extra labour inspector positions promised by Employment Minister Michéal Martin in April following revelations of the abuse of foreign workers by construction company GAMA, has been filled.