Sargent attacks coalition

Green Party delegates voted on Saturday to fight the next election alone. However leader Trevor Sargent said the party is ready to serve in Government. Political Editor Harry McGee reports.

BESIDES there being a run on muesli in the breakfast room of the hotel yesterday morning, the annual Green Party conference in Cork was a very different affair.

The sense of where the party is now, and where the party is going and wants to go, was clear. Everything pointed to watershed.