Anger as Gilmore urges voters not to back FG

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore faced accusations of using desperate tactics to boost voter numbers last night with criticism over a last-minute letter delivered to south Dublin homes attacking Fine Gael.

The letter, in Gilmore’s name, was promoting first-time Labour local election candidate Richard Humphreys, MEP candidate Proinsias de Rossa and by-election contender Alex White.

Marked as an “important message for voters,” Mr Gilmore said that political change was needed. But he added: “That change cannot be achieved by voting for Fine Gael, who are already well represented in this area by two TDs and a councillor, and whose economic policies would continue the ‘slash and burn’ approach which has had such dire consequences so far.”