Hardy, perennial Enda Kenny continuing to bloom even as his rivals wilt

A safe enough gambit is that Enda Kenny’s ego is telling him he is the only man for the job, writes Alison O’Connor.

THERE was an awful lot of hoopla surrounding Taoiseach Enda Kenny this week. There was that photograph tweeted by RTÉ, of Enda doing an interview for Morning Ireland, in which he looked ridiculously young. There he was in a crisp, white shirt, looking like he’d just made his Confirmation, despite being almost eligible for a bus pass.

Apart from how well he looks, I wonder why he would choose to say he didn’t “enjoy” the recent general election, and I wonder about how open he was about the need to find “makey uppy” jobs for the few in his parliamentary party who did not land big jobs in the Fine Gael government bonanza.