Gilmore Gale finally runs out of steam

FROM Gilmore For Taoiseach to Gilmore For Scrapheap in three short years: politics can be a rough old game, as Margaret Thatcher once famously remarked.
Not so long ago, Fine Gael was so rattled by the way Eamon Gilmore appeared to be able to tune into, decipher, and enunciate the anger and aspirations of voters when in opposition, they launched a heave against Enda Kenny in order to replace him with someone who could attempt to match the Labour leader’s talents.