Emotionally intelligent leader with a disregard for public image

Any good spin doctor would have done the moan-in-the-throat indicating a planned action has a lot going for it — but that, at the same time, it carries potential problems.

Enda Kenny serves as a human magnet for the phrase ‘Yeah, but’. During the last general election, the most frequent comment was that he’d really dragged Fine Gael up off their knees and was a tremendously hardworking decent skin. Then would come the ‘Yeah, but’

It would have happened around the middle of last Friday, when Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced he was going to head out to the CRC along with Health Minister James Reilly.