Enda Kenny’s departure: A dignified exit is still a possibility

Like nature, politics abhors a vacuum. A vacuum facilitates change that may or may not be anticipated.

A vacuum generates uncertainty and encourages opportunism — as Steve Bannon proved so spectacularly last year. A vacuum is a blank sheet of paper that can defy even the most disciplined, best-prepared dancing master.

Events — “events, my dear boy, events” — have turned what was a laudatory period of transition into a vacuum. The gentlemen’s club idea that Taoiseach Enda Kenny might, in his own time, decide when to pass the baton has not withstood the seismic allegations or implications of the McCabe scandal.