C’est la vie as attention quickly turns to life for Fine Gael post-Kenny

The leadership battle and the deal with FF have moved centre stage, writes Political Correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

As all around began putting pen to paper on his political epitaph, Taoiseach Enda Kenny cut — not for the first time this week — a forlorn and lonesome figure in the doldrums of Leinster House.

Speaking at a sparsely attended finance and public expenditure committee meeting yesterday morning, Mr Kenny glumly outlined his department’s revised spending estimates for issues he is unlikely to ever oversee.