Labour comes out fighting in post-election relaunch

ATTACK politics dominated the opening of Labour’s conference last night as deputy leader Joan Burton branded the Taoiseach greedy, arrogant and out of touch.

Ms Burton used the party’s post-election relaunch gathering to claim Bertie Ahern had abandoned his promises to voters and was content to feather his own nest while his ministers jostled to succeed him.

She derided the Taoiseach’s evidence to the Mahon corruption probe in September as “unbelievable”, re-enforcing a more combative style of opposition since Eamon Gilmore was elected leader.