The heave which left ‘Agent Enda’ at the helm and FF happy

Political Correspondent Paul O’Brien unravels the events behind FG’s turbulent and emotionally charged week.

THERE’S a line in the popular action film Mission: Impossible when an espionage operation goes wrong and the leading character frantically shouts: “Abort, abort.”

Some of the rebels within the Fine Gael camp must have desperately wished they could do likewise this week and abort the leadership heave as it began to go disastrously wrong.