No sequel for fading double act of Gilmore and Burton

DOES the camp, cult classic film, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? hold a chilling echo of the gothic drama unfolding in the dear-old Labour Party?

In the film, a psychological thriller, wheelchair-bound Joan Crawford is held prisoner by her seething sister, Bette Davis, who resents her for having stolen the limelight as a child star.

Joan Burton would surely want the saintly role of her namesake, Joan Crawford, but Eamon Gilmore supporters would, no doubt, cast her in the cloak of Davis — unhappy at being overtaken in the pecking order by the Tánaiste, and demoted as the party’s finance supremo, to boot.