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JOAN BURTON HAS said she has not spoken with Eamon Gilmore about reported tensions between the pair that were the subject of considerable media coverage earlier this year.
The Social Protection Minister was speaking to TheJournal.ie at the Labour Party conference in Killarney last weekend.
An apparently ongoing rift between the Labour leader and deputy leader was detailed in The Price of Power by Pat Leahy with one anecdote noting how Burton had stored the infamous ‘Gilmore for Taoiseach’ posters in her father’s garden shed.
Asked whether reports of a rift between them had been overblown, Burton repeated previous comments on her relationship with Gilmore.
“Myself and Eamon have always had a very good working relationship,” she said. “He is the leader of the Labour Party I am very happy to support him. He’s been really happy to support me.”
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There won’t be a labour to lead.
The electorate they lied to will see to that and it won’t be a difficult decision.
I met Joan Burton about 12 years ago and she was so full of the plight of the poor, so I cant believe the change in her now.
Henry the big job and living the high life this is what separates them from us.
Just kiss and make up folks, make a home movie and put that up on You Tube.It might make better viewing than the Labour conference did…..
She’s the next leader of labour
There will be no Labour Party to lead after the next election
Presuming labour don’t go the way of the PD’s.
Bill your been a bit dramatic there now.as much as I dislike labour they’re to big of a party to disappear.
Don’t want the party to disappear just the lot that’s in it
They’ll all disappear into the sunset with their big pensions Gilmore, Burton, Howlin,Rabbitte, ect, just like Ahearne, Harney, Dempsey and co
Al I can say shame on you ,you denied the poorer, you denied irish men theire dignity ,you denied the right of the to people to die I in diginty ,shame on you you shower..
Austerity Joan should not talk to Gilmore. He tells too many lies and does not keep promises. Oh, and Eamon should not talk to Austerity Joan … she tells too many lies and does not keep promises.
They are dead and buried. No amount of spin from Gilmore or Rabbitte will save the party. Only the most politically naive would support them now. They have no credibility left. .
I would care more about an ant having a rift with another ant.
What an amazing human being….
I am sure he is looking after his union bussiness, Howlin a elephant never forgets.
No mention of Brendan Howlin as the Labour leader?
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