Shane Ross can stroke with the best of them
Nobody should be surprised that Enda Kenny tried to pull a stroke as he was going out the door. It’s in the man’s nature. He was schooled in politics at a time when the good burghers of Fine Gael used to envy the skill and panache deployed by Fianna Fáilers in stroking. Since assuming the role of taoiseach six years ago, Kenny showed that he could stroke with the best of them.
No, the worrying thing about the nomination of outgoing attorney general Máire Whelan as an appeals court judge is that everybody else went along with it. Kenny’s departure was supposed to usher in a new dawn, out of which mists would appear the young, fresh-faced Leo Varadkar.
