Kieran Shannon: Jim Gavin a great football man not cut out for the senior hurling of politics

The scale of Jim Gavin’s fall and fallout means the private and public rehabilitation will take a long time.

Jim Gavin speaks to the students of Tyndall College in Carlow

It should have been one of his finest hours, a crowning achievement, a public coronation. 

It turned out to be his darkest hour, a public humiliation.