Party members angry at Labour fall

If she’d felt buoyed by the International Monitory Fund’s endorsement for her to lead the Labour Party, Joan Burton was brought back to earth last night by the grassroots concern about the party’s future.

Only around 100 people were at the Labour Party leadership hustings in the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork, last night, a turnout described by some sources as quite disappointing.

Many of the delegates, who included noticeably few young faces, expressed their anger and frustration at how the party had crashed in the recent elections.