On your bike Eamon, that’s enough of your peddlin’

THE good news was that Eamon Gilmore thought he had finally found the much fabled road to democratic socialism, the bad news was he’d taken a wrong turn off the road to personal dignity to get there.

“Is there nothing you wouldn’t do for a photo shoot?” TV3’s fearless news woman Ursula Halligan demanded of the Labour leader as he uncomfortably peddled a poster-bike the wrong way up a bus lane while being pushed by the party’s equally perturbed looking Dublin South by-election candidate, Senator Alex White.

“No, this is the limit!”Mr Gilmore breathlessly answered, the folly of what he was attempting to do now etched plainly across his face.