Gilmore leadership - It’s a very tall order but we wish him well
As Mr Gilmore will be only too aware, he faces challenges that will require vision, patience, energy, an ability to listen, to communicate, to organise, to delegate, to be endlessly optimistic and to inspire.
As well as that he’ll be expected to take on the most successful taoiseach in the history of the state, though his opportunities to do so in the Dáil will be limited. He, and all politicians outside the government cabal, will have to play a role in breaking our undesirable slide towards a single-party state.