Lust for power soon turns old enemies into political bedfellows

Kenny, in effect, was trying to hurt Fianna Fáil by helping Mary Lou McDonald when he criticised Garret FitzGerald for suggesting Fine Gael should transfer votes to Eoin Ryan. At the same time he was trying to have us believe that he would not deal with Sinn Féin. He can’t have it both ways

IN the last days of the campaign, Enda Kenny somehow managed to put both feet into his mouth by getting into a tangle over whether or not Fine Gael would some day share power with Sinn Féin and also over Garret FitzGerald’s suggestion that FG should help out Fianna Fáil’s Eoin Ryan in the European elections.

What FitzGerald was essentially saying was that Fine Gael voters should give their second preferences to Eoin Ryan.