Seanad reform could see Enda Kenny forward with a visionary agenda

FUNNY thing about Enda Kenny is that the attempt to take him out in 2010 was the making of him. Till then, for eight years since his election as party leader in 2002, he endured slights, put-downs and was at best just patronised by some of his own colleagues in Fine Gael. 

But come the day, cometh the man. The full frontal assault when it came, had more than the whiff of self-entitlement about it. Kenny of course had been leery of it all, long time before it happened.

Correctly paranoid about the sound of rustling in the long grass, Kenny was very concerned to demonstrate his leadership credentials. A bold act of decisiveness would be just the thing to clear the air. The Fine Gael annual dinner in 2009 would be just the place, to upset the apple tart and put his adversaries on edge.