Gilmore fires back over slur on Childers

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore fired back at outgoing Fine Gael MEP Avril Doyle yesterday after she questioned the credentials of one of his party’s European election candidates.

On Saturday, Ms Doyle accused Nessa Childers, the Labour candidate in Ireland East, of “political naivety”, saying she was a “Foxrock girl” being exploited by Mr Gilmore’s party because of her family’s political pedigree.

Ms Childers is the daughter of former president Erskine Childers.