Childers silent on identity of threat

LABOUR MEP Nessa Childers has refused to identify the senior party colleague she claims threatened to expel her if she spoke out against the nomination of Kevin Cardiff to the European Court of Auditors.

Mystery surrounds the identity of the politician who left the warning on the voicemail of her iPhone, which was stolen in Brussels on Monday night.

Meanwhile, junior minister Roisín Shortall expressed her reservations about the nomination of Mr Cardiff, who was secretary general of the Department of Finance when an accounting error overstated the national debt by €3.6 billion.