Labour Party Conference 2009
Conference is now over - thanks to everyone who watched our live stream. You can can watch recorded archives of speeches on our Ustream Channel.
You can view Eamon Gilmore's Saturday night address to conference below.
Video feed of Party Leader's speech courtesy of RTE
Views from conference floor
One delegate catching up on the news on conference floor.
Over the last couple of years as part of our online coverage of conference different delegates have written about their conference experiences for us, this year is no different and here are our delegates' views from conference floor.
Friday evening
Cllr John Lyons (Finglas, Dublin)
John addressing conference
The speakers at tonight's debate on education were very critical of the education cuts in Budget 2009 and the more recent axing of 128 special classes for children with learning difficulties.
If Budget 2009 was a budget aimed at the most vulnerable in our society, why has there been so many cuts in education which would clearly affect the disadvantaged in our society most. Other speakers including myself spoke about how a well funded education system is the key to both the future success of our economy and society.
Saturday morning
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Thousand delegates heading to Mullingar for Labour Conference
addressing the Labour Party conference
The end of the month will see our 64th National Conference in Mullingar on March 27th, 28th and 29th. We are expecting almost 1,000 delegates to this year's conference. We have a very full agenda for the conference with hundreds of motions and the focus will be on the economy, banking crisis and the 21st Century Commission report (the 21st Century Commission report contains proposals for the modernisation of the party's structure).
As we run up to the Local and European elections there will be a particular focus on Local and European elections and they won't be the only elections being talked about over the weekend as delegates will be voting for the 15 positions on the party's National Executive Committee.
While there will certainly be a buzz around elections, one of the big highlights of the weekend is the Leaders' Speech on Saturday night. This will be broadcast live on RTE and will, as in previous years, be broadcast live on the internet along with the full conference.
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