FitzGerald ‘doesn’t rate’ Kenny, say FG strategists

FINE GAEL strategists have told of their annoyance with Garret FitzGerald in a new book, saying the former Taoiseach clearly “doesn’t rate” the current party leader, Enda Kenny.

The strategists also speak of an “intellectual snobbery” within “certain sections” of Fine Gael that leads to disdainful views of Mr Kenny.

“There is an intellectual snobbery there,” one says. “Kenny is a bright man, well-educated, but within certain sections of Fine Gael there is a certain south Dublin snobbery.”