Babies, bailouts and bluster as Eamon drops the J-word

BUTCHERS, babies, bailouts and bluster.

It was all along the trail for quietly spoken Eamon Gilmore this week as his eager election team took him on lightning visits with their red-car convoy through six constituencies in three days.

By yesterday morning, in Denis Cronin’s butchers in Killarney, the Labour leader had reached for the knives, referring to party plans to overhaul the EU bailout.