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Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore today said there is now a real prospect of a Labour-led government being formed in Ireland.

In a speech to the Siptu conference in Tralee, he said that in the 100-year history of the labour movement there was never a realistic prospect of the Labour Party leading a government. He said the party had that prospect now.