Greens shocked, but will not quit

THE Green Party insists it is not facing the same fate as the Progressive Democrats after suffering a wipeout in the weekend elections.

The withering Greens were last night set to lose all but three of its 18 council seats and the party was left without any representation in the main city councils of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway.

The meltdown of the junior coalition party will be discussed when the National Executive Council meets this week for party members to debate a review of the programme for Government. But Green leader John Gormley said withdrawing support for Fianna Fáil is not on the agenda.