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Mr Gilmore said that the people who benefit from economic improvement cannot be a handful of property speculators

Government would like to ease taxation - Gilmore

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore says the Government would like to ease taxation during its current term if the economy allows.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said he promised there would be no return to the policies that caused the crash

Tánaiste addresses Labour Party conference

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has addressed the Labour Party Conference in Kerry where he highlighted the progress towards economic recovery that has been made in the 1,000 days since his party went into Government.

News • 01 Dec 13

Eamon Gilmore said difficult decisions had to be taken in order to bring about recovery

Gilmore would 'rather not' lose party members

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has defended the Labour Party’s performance in Government and said he would rather not lose members.

News • 01 Nov 13

Jimmy O'Shaughnessy said the recent Budget was the final straw (pic: Labour Party)

Wicklow councillor quits Labour Party

The Labour Party Chairman of Wicklow County Council has resigned from the party, accusing it of breaking promises made prior to the last general election.

News • 31 Oct 13

Sean O'Grady said he had stuck with the party as long as he could

Town cllr quits Labour over 'right-wing' Govt

A Labour Party town councillor in south Kerry has resigned from the party, saying Labour is propping up "the most right-wing" Government he has ever experienced.

News • 29 Oct 13

John Whelan was one of the four Senators who missed the vote

Labour whip to speak to Senators who missed vote

Senator Aideen Hayden, the Labour Party whip in the Seanad, has said she will be speaking to Labour members who were absent last night when the Government lost a vote.

News • 03 Oct 13

Polls suggest Eamon Gilmore's Labour Party is at its lowest level since 1987

Poll suggests Labour Party support at 25-year low

Support for the Labour Party has fallen to its lowest level for more than 25 years, according to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll.

News • 01 Oct 13

Roscommon-based John Kelly said Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore should be replaced

Labour senator wants new party leader

A Labour Party senator has said Labour leader Eamon Gilmore should be replaced before the local elections next summer.

News • 19 Sep 13

Eamon Gilmore has come under fire from a Labour Senator

Labour Senator critical of Gilmore leadership

A Labour Senator has said that unless the party urgently changes its policies and strategies in Coalition it will have to look at the issue of the leadership of Eamon Gilmore.

News • 30 Aug 13

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore has lost three members of his party this week

Labour party loses third member in a week

Fingal County Councillor Cian O'Callaghan has announced his resignation from the Labour Party.

News • 26 Jul 13

Sunday Independent/Millward Brown opinion poll suggests fall in support for Fine Gael, Labour and Seanad abolition with rise for Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin

FF support up, FG/Lab down: opinion poll

A Sunday Independent/Millward Brown opinion poll suggests that Fianna Fáil has a three-point lead over Fine Gael with Labour support falling and a big drop in those backing Seanad abolition.

News • 07 Jul 13

Colm Keaveney has been a consistent critic of Labour's performance in Government

Colm Keaveney resigns from Labour Party

Labour Party Chairman Colm Keaveney has resigned from the party saying he could no longer go along with what he said was "increasingly like a political charade".

News • 26 Jun 13

Unite represents around 1.5 million workers in Britain and Ireland

Unite considers withdrawing support from Labour

The Unite trade union is to consider temporarily withdrawing political and financial support from the Labour Party, until it receives assurances from it that commitments to protect workers' rights will be met.

News • 24 Jun 13

Patrick Nulty accused Labour's leadership of bringing the political system into disrepute

Patrick Nulty resigns from Labour Party

Dublin West TD Patrick Nulty has resigned from the Labour Party and accused the party's leadership of bringing the political system into disrepute.

News • 21 Jun 13

Nessa Childers said she "no longer wants to support a Government that is actually hurting people"

Childers resigns from Parliamentary Labour Party

MEP Nessa Childers has resigned from the Parliamentary Labour Party saying she "no longer want to support a Government that is actually hurting people".

News • 05 Apr 13

Seen here addressing a Labour Party Conference in 1971, Dr John O'Connell was first elected to the Dáil in 1965 (Pic: RTÉ Stills Library ©)

Former ceann comhairle Dr John O'Connell dies

Tributes have been paid to former ceann comhairle and minister for health Dr John O'Connell, who died this morning aged 83.

News • 08 Mar 13

Colm Keaveney defied the party whip in a budget vote

Labour Party meets on Keaveney position

The Labour Party's executive board has met to consider a report into the issues raised by the fact that its chair, Colm Keaveney is now outside the parliamentary party.

News • 21 Jan 13

Colm Keaveney chaired the last meeting of the executive before Christmas

Keaveney refuses to step down as Labour chair

Colm Keaveney has said he will not be stepping down from his position as Labour chairperson at a meeting of the party's national executive in Dublin tomorrow morning.

News • 18 Jan 13

Labour Party whip Emmet Stagg said Mr Keaveney should 'quit forthwith' because his position was no longer tenable.

Row over Keaveney's future as Labour chairman

A row has erupted within the Labour parliamentary party on Colm Keaveney's future as party chairman.

News • 14 Dec 12

Labour urged to end austerity policies

The Campaign for Labour Policies has called on the Labour Party to renegotiate the Programme for Government and to end austerity policies.

News • 31 Oct 12

Ed Miliband's party has seen its support rise to 41%

Poll puts Britain's Labour Party ahead of Tories

Britain’s Labour Party has increased its lead over the Conservatives to eight points during the autumn party conference season, a poll published tonight suggested.

News • 20 Oct 12

Household Charge protests no surprise: Gilmore

Details are to be announced in the coming days of the system to be used for the imposition of penalties on people who have not paid the Household Charge.

News • 16 Apr 12

Labour delegates debated justice and foreign affairs motions

Labour rejects motion to re-open Vatican embassy

The Labour Party has voted against a motion at its annual conference to reopen the Vatican embassy.