Gilmore mouths off in China but fault’s closer to home

IN a twist on the old cliché of a bull in a china shop, Eamon Gilmore has been talking bull in a ‘shop’ in China.

In a shrill shout-out from Shanghai, the globe-trotting Tánaiste reveals who is to blame for Labour’s collapse in the polls — erm, ex-junior health minister, Roisín Shortall.

Apparently, Labour’s slump can be traced back to the woman Gilmore brands “nasty and bitter”, in an uncharacteristically graceless swipe, and to her appalling rudeness in not telling Mr Gilmore she was going until he got her resignation letter.