Keaveney calls for emergency conference

Rebel chairman Colm Keaveney has demanded an emergency conference to decide Labour’s future in Government as he throws down the gauntlet to Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore.

In a bid to bring the increasingly bitter war of words between the two men to a showdown, Mr Keaveney says delegates at the gathering should decide whether he remains in the post after being expelled from the parliamentary party for voting against child benefit budget cuts.