Enda Kenny in eleventh-hour email snub to Labour

Taoiseach Enda Kenny delivered an apparent eleventh-hour snub to Tánaiste Joan Burton and the Labour Party by failing to mention them in a vote appeal email to Fine Gael supporters last night.

Mr Kenny and Ms Burton yesterday held a final press conference and photocall and made a final-day appeal by encouraging transfers between the two parties.

However, Mr Kenny, in a personal email plea to party supporters last night, called on them to get out the vote and support only Fine Gael candidates, without mentioning the Labour Party.