He offered rigorous, indomitable analysis

ON March 9 last, Garret FitzGerald returned to the Dáil to witness Enda Kenny being elected Taoiseach.

He sat in a chair overlooking the Dáil benches and took evident delight in seeing Mr Kenny follow in his footsteps and lead Fine Gael back into government.

But relations with Mr Kenny and Fine Gael had not always been as good in the previous couple of years.