Kenny’s blind loyalty to ministers betrays lack of management skills

MAKING predictions in politics is a mugs game, we only have to look back on the last few days to confirm that as a fact.

I mean who would have guessed that after a period of political stagnation, and a lacklustre performance at his ard fheis in Killarney last weekend, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin would have had such a stormer of a political week.

More pointedly, who would have thought last Saturday night that former Labour TD Patrick Nulty could arguably have stayed in office, despite his entirely correct decision to stand down.