Sun beginning to set on Kenny leadership?

It may be that politicians of a certain age, no matter which party they belong to, are incapable of persistently playing the game with a straight bat.

It may just be that the arms crisis, the Gubu years, and shabby realities revealed by a litany of inquiries starting with the 1991 Beef Tribunal had a far more profound influence on the formation of a generation or two of our public representatives than we — or they — imagined.

Today’s senior politicians saw how power was achieved and misused, and saw too that nobody was held to account. They saw that guile was at least as important as talent, and that principle was utterly expendable if a barrier to advancement. They saw that corruption on a grand scale, and at the very highest level, was more rewarded than punished.