Kenny’s got the facts and tone wrong

LAST Sunday, at Béal na mBláth, Enda Kenny brought Vladimir Lenin to Ireland.

Addressing the gathering at the annual commemoration for Michael Collins, Kenny recorded that Lenin arrived on this island to check out how the minister for finance in the first Dáil was getting things done. The speech referenced Collins as “the outstanding organiser who brought Lenin himself to Ireland” to see how the National Loan worked.

Enda wasn’t clear on how exactly Collins brought the communist leader here. Did he go over and collect him? While not running a war and a department of finance, did Mick find time to scoot over to Russia on his fabled bicycle, collect Lenin, and give him a crosser back to Dublin?