Eamon Gilmore quits as Labour leader

Democratic Left leader and then minister for Social Welfare Prionsias De Rossa (centre), at a party press conference in the late 1990s in Dublin, before the bail referendum, with Eamon Gilmore, then Minister of State at the Department of the Marine and Liz McManus, Minister of State at the Department of the Enviroment. Photograph: Paddy Whelan/The Irish Times