Fennelly Report: Kenny in eye of the storm

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is facing a political storm after the former Garda commissioner, Martin Callinan, said he felt he had been left with no option but to resign after Mr Kenny dispatched a top official to his house over a phone recording scandal.

While the Fennelly Commission report ruled Mr Kenny did not sack the police chief or pressure him into quitting, his orders left him no choice but, as Mr Callinan said, to “walk off the pitch”.

Mr Kenny’s claims the report vindicated him were quickly rubbished by the opposition. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said the Taoiseach’s version of events were neither “credible nor tenable”.