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16th Sep 2010

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore calls for immediate General Election

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore has called on Taoiseach Brian Cowen to call a General Election immediately.

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Labour leader Eamon Gilmore has called on Taoiseach Brian Cowen to call a General Election immediately.

Mr Gilmore spoke at the conclusion of his parliamentary party think-in in Roscommon today and said Mr Cowen should allow the country to start afresh.

Mr Gilmore also announce that Ruairi Quinn is to be Labour’s Director of Elections and he went to say Labour would run at least 65 candidates, all of them aiming to win, and predicted that his party could be the largest in the next Dáil.

The Labour leader rejected criticism from Minister Batt O’Keeffe that Labour did not have properly worked out policies.

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