Enda puts hammer down in bid to forge new monetary policy

Enda Kenny got a taste of what it’s like to mint your own money— away from the watchful eyes of the troika, but it was just a fleeting moment recalling times gone by rather than the way of things to come.

“We won’t tell Angela Merkel you’re making money,” the director of the Waterford Medieval Museum Eamon McEneaney assured the Taoiseach as Mr Kenny and actor Derek McGrath re-enacted scenes from the old mints which could be found around Waterford in medieval times.

Using an old-fashioned hammer and press, Mr Kenny successfully impressed an image of Edward I on the type of solid silver coins which once were currency throughout the country and created at, among other places, three different mint buildings in Waterford.