10 of the best of 2008 – Number 2
In at Number 2
If you had gone down to Paddy Powers and put a bet on this man being Mayor of Limerick back in May, you would be a rich man now!
Party pacts and council cliques kept the Mayoral chain just out of John Gilligan’s reach, but when the pact, and then the Labour Party, fell apart in the council, Gilligan got his chance.