Labour snubs offers of informal voting pact with Coalition partners

Labour has snubbed offers of an informal voting pact in next month’s European elections between the Coalition parties despite pledges of support from Fine Gael candidates.

Fine Gael candidates in all three European parliament constituencies last night said they would ask voters to give transfers to those running with the junior Coalition party.

The promise comes after bruising results for Labour in recent opinion polls and warnings that it could lose all its MEP seats and also face significant losses in the local elections.