Enda fails to pull Rabbitte out of hat

BEFORE the cock crowed three times, St Peter denied our Lord. Before the election hooter even sounded, Pat Rabbitte chalked up a hat-trick of denials of Enda Kenny yesterday.

The Labour Party leader's refusal to recommend that his party's supporters continue their preferences to Fine Gael and the Green Party hardly engenders the electorate with confidence in the so-called alternative Government.

Arguably, Mr Rabbitte is wondering if Mr Kenny is truly the messiah of Fine Gael and the man to lift the party from the doldrums of the last general election.