No leadership challenge, says Gilmore

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore has insisted he will not face a leadership challenge after the national polls tomorrow.

Mr Gilmore played down talk that his position would be in peril if Labour experiences the local and Euro rout predicted by its slump showing in opinion polls

“It will be quite sometime before there is a contest,” he said. The Tánaiste also moved to brush aside the apparent public snub delivered by Taoiseach Enda Kenny when he dashed Labour hopes of a post-election re-negotiation of the Programme for Government.