Labour poaches Green’s Childers

LABOUR stunned the Green party last night by poaching one of its more high-profile members to run for the European elections next year.

Nessa Childers, daughter of the late president Erskine Childers, will seek the Labour nomination to run in the Ireland East [formerly Leinster] constituency.

The party will hold a convention to select its candidate for the constituency in November at which it is expected Ms Childers will be nominated unopposed.