Repository of rage or harbinger of hope?

WHETHER because he’s the repository of rage or the harbinger of hope, there is no denying Eamon Gilmore is the man of the moment: the man to beat.

It is a position he has worked studiously to achieve, and one he clearly intends to carefully guard.

But is his status merely based on being able to articulate the anger of the nation without offering it any hard choices as opponents claim?