How inert Enda failed to bank on his own lovely Lee

BEEN there, done that, thought I should have been Taoiseach.

Mere political pygmies like Winston Churchill may have had to wait 40 years in parliament before their full abilities were finally recognised by a grateful party and nation, but that was not a fate worthy of the likes of George Lee.

To some of us, eight months in the Dáil may not seem the longest of stints – indeed, it often felt like some of Mr Lee’s mesmerically monotone RTÉ reports went on for longer than his Oireachtas career – but it was enough for our man of destiny to realise he’d landed in Lilliput when he belonged in the Land of the Giants.