The leading story right now on politics.ie:

Mary Harneys’ leadership of the Progressive Democrats was unanimously formalised tonight by the PD Parliamentary Party.

As a a result, she will no longer be ‘interim’ leader of the Progressive Democrats and it is not clear now whether or not there will be an leadership contest.

The PD review committee have been asked to make proposals for the future election of a PD leader, however, sources have told Politics.ie there may not be an election contest until 2009, meaning that Mary Harney may stay on for 2 years as leader.

To be honest, I was going to wax lyrical about everything here but RetiredProvo beat me to the point with his comment:

PD Parliamentary Party - Ha Ha.

Did she vote for herself ?

I see Noel Grealish was elected chairman of the Parliamentary Party aswell. Who will get all the other plush jobs on offer.

Excellent stuff - and after that, the biggest question that remains is how much more regressive can the party actually become? Having a leader who openly doesn’t want the job and who actually quit it before? Says an awful lot for their enthusiasm in their roles.

Oh, and John Gormley’s the Green Party leader. Buh.