Enda Kenny's critics find their voice again  

"WHEN I win this vote, I will go on to be Taoiseach," said a fiery Enda Kenny — to a roar described by one TD as being "as loud of those vuvuzela horns in South Africa" — as he delivered a rousing speech in a packed Leinster House meeting room, which saw off party rebels seeking to oust him.

That was 2010 and the background was a FIFA World Cup and a failed Fine Gael heave. True to his word, the long-serving Mayo TD showed his shrewd and steely side and went on to become leader of the land.

The episode, which until two weeks ago had seemed like little more than a distant memory — has re-emerged in the minds of many in the party which in recent days has became unwittingly engulfed in a crony-crisis of its very own making.