Tetchy Kenny ‘got up noses’of Alliance

The Independent Alliance was highly “relieved” when an “arrogant, tribal”, and “tetchy” Enda Kenny departed as taoiseach in June, super junior minister Finian McGrath has said.

Tetchy Kenny ‘got up noses’of Alliance

“He used to get up our noses,” Mr McGrath said in an interview with the Irish Examiner.

“On a political level, he had that old Fine Gael attitude; arrogant, talking down to the little people — these Independents — so there was that element of that. Sometimes that would cause dissent, particularly in the early few weeks.”

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