Only seven days as Taoiseach but Kenny works like a charm

IT took God seven days to create the world, Enda Kenny joked in a succession of speeches in Washington on St Patrick’s Day, making it the same number of days he had been in the office of Taoiseach.

Comparing himself to the Lord in front of the leader of the United States of America, Barack Obama, might have been a stretch too far. But Enda Kenny could be forgiven for his case of God delusion as he celebrated his first full week in the job.

For on the seventh day, he walked up the steps of the Capitol Building, in what he said was “personally” one of his greatest ever moments; he had breakfast with another one of Mayo’s favourite sons, Vice-President Joe Biden, who he invited to his home county; and he sat down in the Oval Office with the leader of the free world who accepted his invitation to visit Ireland.