Gilmore being set up as a messiah

YOUR columnist Fergus Finlay (June 21) once again promotes his erstwhile cronies in the Labour party.

With his usual disdain for any politician not from this party and ignoring, as usual, the stark realities of the world we now live in, he has the audacity to set up Eamon Gilmore as a messiah for our current woes.

He quotes the Labour leader as saying “we need a fresh start and new hope ... we need a government focused on three core tasks — creating jobs, reforming the way the country is governed, etc ... we need a government that understands what is happening in the global economy”. Unfortunately, Gilmore failed to mention that to achieve these goals we first have to put the economy in order..