Jackboot-clad Kenny gives democracy a good kicking

Enda Kenny celebrated his third anniversary in power by slipping on jackboots and giving democracy a good kicking.

Well, that’s what Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin claimed anyway as parliamentary business was suspended for a three-day orgy of Government self-love.

But it was not so much the new Crimea war, more the same old Coalition bore, as Mr Kenny and his Labour sidekick once again asked us to bask in their own brilliance.