Shortall no red-line issue for Labour TDs

Talk of widespread Labour anger towards Eamon Gilmore is misplaced, the general sense is battles are part of politics, writes political editor Paul O’Brien

IT was a Labour, not a Fine Gael, TD who offered the following assessment of the political realities behind Roisín Shortall’s resignation,

“You’re a junior minister, you announce 20 primary healthcare centres around the country, and there’s not one of them in the senior minister’s constituency? For fuck’s sake.