Labour makes bid to ‘recast political map’

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore believes his party is about to “recast the political map of this country”.

In rolling out the map, he might have to first draw a big red line starting from Clare up along the west coast to Donegal and across some border counties — marking the area where his party has a major challenge to win seats.

The party that aims to become the “third force” in Irish politics, yesterday announced it is undertaking a “major survey” of the north and west of the country to “identify the social and economic issues that are impacting at local level”.