Singing the blues

What a difference a year makes.

In Jul 2011, as the Dáil was rising for its summer recess, everything was going swimmingly for the Taoiseach and his Government.

On Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011, Enda Kenny, astutely judging the public mood and the extent of his own political capital, issued a thundering denunciation of the Vatican following the publication of the Cloyne report on clerical child sex abuse.