Homeless man casts a long shadow over Gilmore

THE dishevelled-looking homeless man, slumping under the weight of a filthy sleeping bag draped around his shoulders, was quietly ushered away from the Eamon Gilmore campaign stunt he had stumbled across.

Clearly, Labour did not want one of the actual victims of such an unjust society to ruin the cosy image of a self-styled “people’s party” battling for all as the election campaigns climaxed last Thursday.

Labour wanted the sexy samba band it had brought along for the occasion at the gates of St Stephen’s Green in the pictures, not some down-and-out killing the buzz.