Greens row in behind cabinet ahead of grassroots policy review

THE Green Party leadership has resisted the temptation to use Bord Snip Nua to kick out and assert itself ahead of its special policy conference in Dublin today.

Despite a bust-up with Fianna Fáil earlier on Tuesday, its two senior ministers, John Gormley and Eamon Ryan, rowed in behind the rest of the cabinet and said budgetary cuts were painful but necessary.

Mr Gormley said the report required a measured response.