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At the Irish Management Institute conference in Sandyford, Dublin today were (second pic from left): Herb Hribar, CEO of Eircom; Enda Kenny; Ireland Rugby coach Joe Schmidt and CEO of the IMI Dr Simon Boucher.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
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An Taoiseach Enda Kenny with Philip Maguire, CEO of I.T. Alliance, photobombing himself at a jobs announcement for I.T. Alliance in Park West, Dublin earlier.
Any excuse
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“Ireland has made good progress, this progress was not made in Germany it was made in Ireland on the basis of the Irish understanding that things had gone wrong in the past few years.
“I’m grateful to my colleague Enda Kenny for implementing the reforms so passionately. Ireland is one of those examples where it can be shown that things are improving.
“Ireland has remarkably lower yields [on its bonds]. I want to express my sincere respect for what Ireland has achieved over the past couple of years. Those developments are good and important for Ireland.”
Angela Merkel today.
Merkel says policy toward Ireland will not change after election win (RTE)
(Photocall Ireland)
RTE has invited @EndaKennyTD to take part in Seanad debate with @MichealMartinTD on Seanad on October 1
— Sarah McInerney (@SarahAMcInerney) September 20, 2013
Oh, It’s ON.
Possibly.
Previously: Not Taking Debate
File pic: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
RTÉ One 10:00 Crouching Tiger Hidden Taoiseach: Enda Kenny’s friends and family try to remember the last time he spoke publicly.
— Not The RTÉ Guide (@YourRTEGuide) September 16, 2013
The more serious issue is that Kenny’s decision to duck out of yet another debate suggests weakness on his part. Unless it takes place in a forum where he is in control, the Fine Gael leader consistently declines invitations to talk about the most serious issues affecting the country. The taoiseach’s latest vow of silence is particularly unforgivable given that Seanad abolition is his own big idea; proof, apparently, that he is bold and imaginative.
The real problem, of course, is that Kenny’s handlers do not trust him to perform well on live television and he probably doesn’t trust himself either. His previous performances have been wooden, clichéd, scripted, and vulnerable to the unexpected. His collapse when debating Bertie Ahern in the 2007 general election debate, in circumstances where he should have won easily, left scars that still haven’t healed.
Matt Cooper writing in yesterday’s Sunday Times (behind paywall)
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Controversially road tested by Emily last month, Enda Kenny inspects the Google glasses at Google’s Ireland HQ moments ago.
It’s not a caption competition unless you say so.
Via MerrionStreet.ie
Thanks Pidge
Ciarán Cahill asks:
Did Edna Kenny appear in ‘Yes, Prime Minister’?
Good Grief
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The New York Times reports the terrible news yesterday in appropriately sombre tone, with the following postscript.
They’ve done it again!
Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet of Soil and Strife, Dies at 74 (New York Times)
(H/T: David)
Stephanie Meehan’s first meeting with Enda Kenny in April 2012 during a protest outside the Mylan pharmaceutical plant in Dublin, where Mr Kenny made a jobs announcement.
Previously: Dear Enda
(Sako Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
(Matt Moran, top, former chief financial officer with Anglo, who claims in emails that Enda Kenny, top, rang him twice in November 2008 to brief him on Fine Gael’s banking crisis strategy)
[Michael] Martin said that in recent weeks the Taoiseach reacted to the Anglo Tapes, published by the Irish Independent, and spoke about an “axis of collusion” without a scrap of evidence.
The Fianna Fáil leader said the reports leave the Taoiseach red-faced because they show he was engaged in personal informal contact with Anglo senior management, and that they suggest the Taoiseach deliberately misled the Dáil in response to the Anglo Tape story when he talked about his personal contact with Anglo, as the only example he cited was a meeting in September 2008.
Taoiseach denies he misled Dáil over Anglo (RTE)
The former Anglo executive also writes about being in regular contact with former Fianna Fail TD Beverley Flynn.
He writes about “conversations” with Ms Flynn, and how she would update him on discussions with then Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.
Mr Moran is from Mr Kenny and Ms Flynn’s home town of Castlebar, Co Mayo.
Enda Kenny: The Anglo Connection (Tom Lyons and Daniel McConnell, Sunday Independent)
He [Matt Moran] is from a well-known Castlebar business family and the youngest offspring of the late Michael and Mary Moran. Over many decades the family has run Rocky’s pub, and an undertaking business on Tucker Street. Coincidentally the pub is across the road from Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s constituency office.
Anglo Tapes have Castlebar Connection (Mayo News, July 2)
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