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LAST WEEK WE brought you pictures of a young Labour senator back in the day when he wore beads and hung out with hippies in the Slieve Bloom mountains.
This week we bring you someone a little more recognisable and a little more laid-back then he probably is these days.
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore didn’t have to worry about Labour’s Way or Frankfurt’s Way back in 1991, nor the latest controversy involving Alan Shatter.
Nope, times were pretty simple for Gilmore in 1991 as he urged voters to re-elect him and his Workers’ Party team onto Dublin City Council.
But his pose indicates that even if you didn’t he’d be totally cool with that. You know, whatever.
Here’s the leaflet in full:
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Ah yes the Workers party associates 1985 – racketeering counterfeiting protection robberies intimidation … ah wonderful memories !
Sure your not mixing them with FF?
I remember 1985…I didn’t know it at the time – but emigration was just around the corner for me.
Thanks Eamon!
I’m amused at the second paragraph: “1985 – Fine Gael and Labour were in power. They introduced water charges and promised to reform Local Government. We’re still waiting.”
I guess that could still be on the local election posters..
I actually believed that man had scruples and would do what was right for the lower/working classes. How wrong I was.
A complete and utter sellout of the highest order. A stain on our country and a destroyer of the left. Thanks Eamonn.
@ Roland 303
Totally agree with you. Labour will be gone in next election, the party missed the opportunity to stand up for the common man. We’re facing into a continued top-down structured economy with little concern for those in need. We need a conversation in Ireland to agreed what type of society we want. Seems to me, no matter who gets into power they forget that we are human beings and not economic beings!
And what a traitor Gilmore turned out to be
He’ll have a big pay day and pension after the next election.
Him and his buddies.
“mission accomplished”……
Oh, it’d make you want to be sick!!!
LANGER
That’s just put me off my bacon sarnie.
He has certainly made 2014 a year to remember so far !
Spineless , worthless Stickie – only interested in the big fat pension – having destroyed The Labour Party !
Dick spring destroyed it the ladt time they were in government…..its no surprise how useless they are this time around aswell
“Stickie” wow, talk about living in the past. Should we continue to classify Sinn Fein as the “Provos” while we’re at it?
Gaping arsehole
Nobody in the workers party ever did a tap in their whole life
Gilmore what a joker ,the caption should read Workers I am going to line my pockets and look after my family and friends so you have being warned.
He even looked like a w@nker back then.
Was this just after he left the official RA !
It’s eamon’s way of breaking up the left wing parties and making them right wing chickens. Workers party democratic left now labour. Good job eamon way to go ruin the left.
Yes, he’s a totally laid- back individual all right!!
Just replace the ‘or’ with ‘an’ in the Workers Party ,and then 26 years later , replace the W with the letter B and make it the Bankers Party !
Where are his knitting needles?
Buried un the common mans back
He was going for reelection in 1985. So he has been in the political profession for 30+ years? And most f the rest of them the same. We need a new generation of politicians. Time for term limits to be introduced. Something like 10 years max. Get some new blood in there and chuck the dead wood. Any takers?
Have always thought the same..Lets do away with career politicians ..they have had long enough at the trough!
2 terms max with pensions pro rata might go someway to restoring trust and bring new blood and new ideas…but could the same not be said for the permanant civil service..who really run the country!
Any aspirations or ambitions to be a politician should automatically bar you from ever becoming one.
Mrs Brown hasn’t aged a bit
Laid back liar.
He is not even worth a heckle.
Little did we know then what sort of a vile turncoat this creature would turn out to be….
The last true Labour leader was Frank Cluskey, all this shower are DL, even the late Tonas McGiolla would be ashamed of how Gilmore and his lackeys have folded and Cowtowed to Enda and the Fine Gael Mafia
Mcgiolla, now that was a good msn
I prefer this one:
It’s like déjà vu!
Laid back and groovy?
Surely the heading for this article should read: Who’s the younger looking D!ckhead with the glasses?
Seeing this picture reminded me of W.B Yeat’s lines “What need you, being come to sense, / but fumble in a greasy till.” I think that just about sums it up.
Groovy !!! Hahahaaaaaaa.
Don’t make me laugh.
Knob
The new labour banner should read fcuk the workers party
Eamon Gilmore a political WH**E will jump into bed with any party
There they are fresh from making their own money,and Gilmore looking like a clown.
The funniest part of this article is the use of the word “leader” in the sub-heading. Gilmore does what he’s told by his FG bosses.
Is it Colin Hunt from the Fast Show?
Too bad he turned his back on the ethics of that party.
He certainly put Putin in his place
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