The Labour Party has lost yet another member.
Nessa Childers MEP has written to Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore confirming her resignation from the party.
She says Labour is allowing Fine Gael to pursue endless austerity policies which go against the party's core values.
She says those policies are a "profoundly immoral way to run our country".
Ms Childers says she'll run in next year's European elections as an independent candidate.
