Acting tough isn’t enough

“SOMEDAY a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”

That reign will be Enda Kenny’s.

He may not have quoted Taxi Driver’s crime-avenging anti-hero Travis Bickle exactly, but that was the clear subtext of the Fine Gael leader’s Árd Fheis speech where he was repackaged as Alpha Male Enda the Defender.