Yes he can’t.
By Jim Sheridan
Tag Archives: Enda Kenny
“But before The Gathering [tourism initiative] – this June I look forward to welcoming many of the American Ireland Fund’s supporters to Castlemartyr in County Cork to its Worldwide Conference – just another sign of your continued commitment and support to Ireland.”
Enda Kenny, March 19.
The conference will include the final stages of the Ireland Funds’ Business Plan Competition.
And the co-chairman of the judging panel is…
Denis O’Brien.
Related: Deafening FG Silence On O’Brien Is No Surprise (Vincent Browne, Irish Times)
Quite tall or average-sized?
We may never know.
Dashing Toomas Hendrik Ilves, slightly tech-paranoid, American-raised, former journalist, never seen without a bow-tie, and Enda Kenny in the Taoiseach’s office at government buildings literally within the last hour.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Until you say so.
Trapattoni And Kenny Team Up For Croagh Patrick Climb (Irish Times)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Don’t panic.
The Taoiseach has promised action on the mortgage crisis, job creation and renegotiation of bank recapitalisation in his leader’s address to the Fine Gael Ard Fheis.
Taoiseach Addresses Fine Gael Ard Fheis (RTE)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Riiight.
First Rabbitte. And now Eamon.
Labour staunchly defends the Enda and Denis roadshow.
What did Mahon say again?
“Given the existence of such rampant public corruption the question is why it was allowed to continue unabated. The shot answer to that question is that nobody was prepared to do enough to stop it.”
Meanwhile, one very short year ago:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18WTwttaXbA
“The problem lies at one single place in Irish life — the point at which business and politics meet. We in this House and in particular those of us in Government regularly make decisions that affect the fortunes of corporate interests. We are entrusted by the people to make those decisions in the public interest. In broad terms, good public policy decisions will also create a healthy environment in which businesses operate but the decisions we make may also regularly benefit or hinder particular businesses to a very large degree. Politicians, as a by-product of particular decisions we make, in passing can enrich particular businesses and individuals. It is this fact that requires us to be particularly vigilant, stringent and transparent about how we police that point where we interact with the commercial world.“
Pat Rabbitte, Moriarty debate, March 30, 2011
And what Enda had to say:
“I cannot imagine a mandate from Irish people – or true democrats anywhere – that would involve an order or desire or permission for the behaviour outlined in the [Moriarty] report.
…Previous Tribunals elicited thousands of words, but pitiful inaction, by those who sat, then, over here. The new government breaks from that precedent and acts definitively and decisively.
…And we plan further, direct action, to sever the links between politics and business once and for all.
…I believe that to recreate political virtue, to rebuild public trust, to restore our reputation, it is no longer sufficient to do what is correct. To achieve even a fraction of that, we must do what is right.
When that culture included business and banking, it contaminated our country, divided our society, and diminished our republic. That contamination, division and diminution must end.”
Bless.
Miriam O’Callaghan, Mary Robinson and Enda Kenny at the Change Nation conference literally earlier at Dublin Castle.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
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Enda Kenny at the launch of Daffodil Day (in aid of the Irish Cancer Society, tomorrow March 23) at government buildings, Dublin, within the last hour with Ali and Peter Skehan.
And later:
Bless.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
“To quote your first president Douglas Hyde: ‘A word is more lasting than the riches of the world’. Tonight, grateful for our shared past and hopeful for our common future, I give my word to you prime minister and to the people of Ireland as long as I am president you will have a strong friend, a steadfast ally and a faithful partner in the United States of America.”
Mmf.
Yikes.
Enda Kenny, Denis O’Brien and Democrat minority leader of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi at the American Ireland Fund dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Centre.
Before sitting down to dinner, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, in an elegant Thierry Mugler jacket and pearl choker, huddled with Kenny and Irish businessman Denis O’Brien, while the Irish ambassador to the U.S., Michael Collins, made sure his table guests from both sides of the Atlantic were properly introduced.
Shudder.
Scene in D.C.: Nancy Pelosi, Enda Kenny, Patrick Leahy (Bloomberg)
Earlier: What Is Ireland Inc?
(Stephanie Green/Bloomberg)