Enda, our luckiest loser, should check his horoscope

If a handful of seats had bounced the other way in 2007, Enda would have limped into power at the head of a ragbag coalition, just in time for the financial crash. FF would have been utterly ruthless in their condemnation, writes Shaun Connolly

IN CHINA it will be the year of the Monkey, in Ireland it will be the year of the Enda.

Same difference — because Mr Kenny is the cheekiest little monkey Irish politics has probably ever seen. At the same time he’s the luckiest loser in Dáil history — yet he’s about to become Fine Gael’s biggest winner ever.