OPINION: The Taoiseach breaks his ‘covenant’

"I accept that my own sense of integrity and trust didn’t measure up here."

The blunt confession from Enda Kenny to the Dáil yesterday afternoon has brought full circle that “covenant” he entered into with the Irish people — on his first day as Taoiseach — to tell them the truth, no matter what the cost.

“The new Government will tell the people the truth regardless of how unwelcome or difficult that might be. We will tell it constantly and unreservedly. It is the only way because the people always have a right to know,” he said in March 2011.