The Green Party is facing a key parliamentary party meeting tonight as a motion of no confidence in the party’s chair Hazel Chu is brought forward. Chu, Dublin’s Lord Mayor is running as an independent candidate for the Seanad after the party refused to back her bid. John Downing Political Correspondent with the Irish Independent and former Press Advisor to the Green Party.

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