Fennelly Fallout: Government is treating people like they are fools

IN THE world of our Taoiseach Enda Kenny if you wake up with the head of a dead horse in the bed beside you the thing to do is take it to a taxidermist and have it stuffed and mounted, writes Alison O’Connor. 

Don’t bother your head worrying about any hidden meanings in a dismembered animal part being placed on your pillow.

This world is without doubt a far-fetched place, where the principles of cause and effect, usually grasped in toddlerhood, appear not to apply. It is also a place where this man who has spent the vast majority of his life involved in national politics, clawed his way to the summit against the odds, and for the past four and a half years has been the top dog, in political terms, of our country, claims naivety when it comes to the implications of ordering late night, at-home meetings between senior servants of the State.