Clash of conscience

Colm Keaveney, essentially a member of the opposition, chaired a meeting of the Labour parliamentary party at the weekend. Michael Clifford reports

Here’s a political meeting straight out of Pat Shortt’s imagination.

Last Saturday, the national executive of the Labour Party met for a scheduled gathering. This being a political party, the meeting dealt with, believe it or not, politics. Yet the chair of the meeting, Colm Keaveney, left the room when “political matters” were under consideration. That’s according to the party leader, Eamon Gilmore.