Gilmore back to basics rallying cry

‘We must make politics more relevant to people’ THIS might sound just a little bit off the wall, but Leinster House and the World Wrestling Federation have more than a few things in common.

Gilmore back to basics rallying cry

Think about it. There's the staged play-acting, the incessant attempts to play to the crowd and the laboured delusion that what's going on in the ring is real and significant.

Eamon Gilmore, Labour TD for Dun Laoghaire and party leadership hopeful, is more than aware of this. And he realises that national politics is on the ropes and if it keeps going down this road, it will become more and more of a national joke.

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