This morning.
Dublin castle,
Taoiseach Enda Kenny carrying Lexi McKeon (7 months) and, to their left, Simon Harris (32 years), Health Minister, help launch the Healthy Ireland Network, which aims to boost “the national movement for health and wellbeing”.
Leah Farrell/Rollingnews
Meanwhile…
You and I may believe the problems facing this country are legion but we must accept that these were none of his concern.
All the ills and injustice deepened by his policies are not error or oversight but perfectly desirable features of how Enda Kenny believes the world should work.
You have to look very hard to find any measure imposed by the Troika that Fine Gael would disagree with. Every incarnation of the party dating back to independence and before has shown contempt for the vast majority of Irish people in the interest of the wealth and privilege they represent.
Rather than some so heroic fight to bring the country back from the brink, the bailout provided perfect cover to remake Ireland in their own warped image.
“The best small country in the world in which to do business” – that was the extent of his vision for Ireland. A modest ambition for a country that never had any issue in facilitating the needs of capital.
If anything, it was already too easy to do business in Ireland provided your business was finance, property or farming exports.
Kenny’s very first outing as Taoiseach was a conference of the Irish Funds Industry Association where he gave the keynote address. The main takeaway from that speech as noted on the lobby group’s website was the prime minister assuring financial services that his “door is always open”.
Not so for those at the sharp end. You needn’t have me repeat here that list in full. Soaring house prices, rents, debts and suicides. Decimated public services, deliberate rural decline, etc. Nor need we run through every twist a turn of his six year premiership because we’ve each witnessed it.
There is little point raising these facts now as he prepares to step down. Long prepared newspaper supplements and well rehearsed media punditry will do the usual routine with no one remarking that Enda Kenny leaves politics having fulfilled exactly the job he had to do. A sycophant in Europe and puppet at home was all in a days work. Housing crises, desperate lone parents and crooked cops have no baring on his record.
Commentary will instead commend him as a ‘canny operator’. He will be lauded for hanging on in spite of increasingly grotesque scandals exposing the dark heart of this country, whatever of the casualties.
Enda Kenny survived.
Just as the regime he led continues to exploit, demean and prosper for it. It may be cruel. It may be shambolic. But we cannot judge his role in it as other than a success.
FIGHT
Enda Kenny – The Most Successful Taoiseach Ever (OireacthasRetort)
Tapiseach Enda Kenny?
Bodger….
Thanks Holden, fixed now. Sorry.
*claps* *wipes away tear* Beautiful.
A success?, Ha, why is he leaving early so. Why has there been calls for him to leave for months. Was he not hanging around to pull on the green jersey with respect to Brexit or was the hanging around more to do with visits to Washington andbreaking records for longest running FG waste of space. Is he off home to Sligo now with his county men and women that he called a bunch of whingers not long ago.
*Mayo
doesn’t really matter, a bunch of Béal Bocht Losers, the lot of them
Great article, you nailed it…..except you should have included his 36 years as a TD during which time he didn’t manage to bring a single piece of legislation into law. None.
Think about that for one moment, 35 years in a job and you achieved absolutely nothing.
Wrong.
Here’s something he signed into law back in 1996.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1996/si/238/made/en/print
Stunning work.
Harris looks like a possessed child
A divisive, cynical front man for billionaires and business interests and a facilitator of Michael Noonan.
It isn’t really Kenny resigning this week, it’s Michael Noonan. Without Noonan doing his worst, selling out the nation to Vulture Funds, there is no need for Kenny.
the next few weeks are going to be insufferable. we’ll have to listen to the eulogies about that douchebag’s ‘legacy’ and then the two boyos lying through their holes at us in the scrabble for power.
i really, really, fukn hate FG
They don’t like you either so I wouldn’t worry about it
True.
And not the slightest possibility that Varadker or Coveney will be challenged on their ‘achievements’ to date. All I’m hearing in the media is a series of conflicted, demented loons eulogising one or the other for entirely irrelevant or fatuous reasons. Not a scintilla of vision, leadership or reforming zeal between them.
And so the charade continues.
Oh Jaysus, why do I still have to put up with photos of Kenny gurning at me, (and scaring babies)? Will it never end? As for Dirty Gerty and ‘Orrible Flo ? Frankly my dears, I don’t give a damn.
As usual, Bodger has hit the nail on the head.Merkels lapdog will probably end up in Brussels lobbying for Monsanto or BAE or some other vicious pack of greedheads.
Relax there callan
He was the most useless and hopeless of them all, just look at Castlebar.