Alex White: Labour won’t back Enda Kenny twice

The Labour Party will not support Enda Kenny’s nomination for taoiseach a second time, if he fails to be elected this Thursday.

The party is also set to lose a significant amount of its state funding, worth almost €3m, given its woeful election.

Roundly defeated in the recent general election, the party will support Mr Kenny on the first vote as a “book end” to the last government, but not after that, outgoing Labour minister Alex White has said.