Eamon Gilmore

Labour's way or Frankfurt's way?

Eamon Gilmore (born April 24, 1955) is the current Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland. He leads the Labour Party and is in coalition with the right-wing Fine Gael.

Quotes

• It's Labour's way or Frankfurt's way.
  • Gilmore's infamous election campaign slogan. The Irish Times

• It's a clear decision. It's a decision we respect and it's the end of the Lisbon Treaty. The speculation that there will be a second bite at it -- there won't be.
  • Gilmore in public after the first Lisbon Treaty referendum. Sunday Independent

• That debate is over and the referendum has delivered a result.
  • Gilmore following the rejection of the first Lisbon Treaty referendum by the Irish people. Sunday Independent

• Running around like a blue-behind bluebottle waving slogans.
  • Slogan waver Eamon Gilmore on Richard Boyd Barrett's suggestion that the government's 12.5 per cent corporation tax is not being effectively implemented. The Irish Times

• You have a neck. You have a neck. You have a neck. You come in here with your orders from Belfast to make allegations. You have a neck.
  • Gilmore indignantly dismissing criticism of “sharp corrupt practice” by Health Minister James Reilly from Mary Lou McDonald in the Dáil. Irish Independent

Quotes about Gilmore

• Gilmore, who has led calls against a second referendum, has told the [American] embassy separately that he fully expects, and would support, holding a second referendum in 2009. He explained his public posture of opposition to a second referendum as 'politically necessary' for the time being.
  • US Ambassador Thomas Foley in a WikiLeaks cable discussing the Lisbon Treaty. Sunday Independent

• From now until the day he leaves office, anything Eamon Gilmore says can be legitimately discredited with a single sentence: "Ah, yes, Minister, but is that what you're telling the American Embassy?"
  • Gene Kerrigan in June 2011 in the Sunday Independent