Gilmore should copy Kidney’s playbook for a political grand slam

ENFIELD isn’t far from Mullingar. It was a meeting in Enfield last Christmas that sowed the seeds of Ireland’s Grand Slam in rugby.

And possibly, just possibly, the same thing happened for Labour in Mullingar last weekend.

How realistic a possibility is it, I wonder, that Labour will be the lead party in the next Government? I know I’m biased in the matter, but I happen to think it is a real possibility — for the first time in the party’s history. They have to make a huge leap if it’s to happen. But after listening to Eamon Gilmore’s Saturday night speech, you’d have to think he has what it takes to acquit himself more than well in a position of national leadership.