Climate ‘too important for playing politics’

GREEN PARTY leader John Gormley attacked the “negative nonsense” of the opposition on the issue of climate change, saying the consequences were too important to “play politics” with.

Mr Gormley, who strongly criticised Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats for their “gombeenism in government” at last year’s annual convention, switched his target to Fine Gael and Labour for this year’s convention, which took place in Dundalk.

In his leader’s address on Saturday night, Mr Gormley told delegates that all parties needed to “agree on the targets and measures required to tackle climate change”.