Jobs data is not fit for purpose - Unemployment falls again

THERE is an illustrative irony that, on the day the best job figures in nearly a decade were announced, Taoiseach Enda Kenny was, apparently, preparing to oppose those who would end his leadership. 

He, after all, led us out of a very dark place and may resent the ingratitude a putsch would represent. The if-you-don’t-mind spinelessness of those pretenders — in more ways than one — who want him gone must also have encouraged him too — even without Phil Hogan at his back.

There is another irony. Should he repel this attack, he will have a pyrrhic victory but show his usurpers in such a poor light that the party he rebuilt may be mortally wounded.