Fine Gael is playing risky poll campaign

The other day, Taoiseach Enda Kenny — aka Mr 93% — opined that he was pinning his election hopes on a major programme of job creation over the next five years.

He was no doubt thinking of the targets set for IDA Ireland-supported companies and for Enterprise Ireland. The ongoing success of the IDA, in particular, has been outstanding.

The IDA was instrumental in securing 19,000 new jobs through investments by multinational firms in Ireland in 2015. That many of those jobs were located outside of Dublin, underpinned the IDA’s success.