Realisation dawned on Kenny his days were numbered

Enda Kenny resigned as taoiseach on June 13, 2017 having been Fine Gael’s most successful leader ever. After surviving a botched internal heave in the summer of 2010, eight months later he was taoiseach and head of a coalition government with the largest Dáil majority in history.

Following a shambolic campaign in 2016, Fine Gael suffered a major collapse in support and Kenny clung to power, squatting in Government Buildings for more than 70 days while he desperately cobbled together a minority government. For all of his efforts from 2011 in turning the country around, the people, en masse, rejected him and his arrogant party, which lost 26 seats.