ENDA KENNY PLOUGHS LONE FURROW

The autocratic style employed by the Taoiseachis causing disquiet and he would do well to take stock before becoming his government’s biggest liability,reports Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

WHO’S going to bring down the Government? Alan Shatter? The former minister for justice is to appear on tonight’s Late, Late Show, and is expected to be wielding a knife. Even if he is armed, precedent suggests that any wound he may render will not be fatal.

What about Martin Callinan? The former garda commissioner knows where one body is buried. Could Callinan reveal that, in fact, the missive delivered to him the night before his resignation was the metaphorical revolver and bottle of whiskey? If he was given the impression that he better go before being pushed, then Kenny has a problem. Any taoiseach seen to be acting above the law in such a manner would find his tenure in office untenable.