Taoiseach’s tough guy act an attempt to hide Irish weakness

Enda Kenny is very slippery on Greece.

From the moment he arrived at a Brussels summit suddenly swamped by the never-ending crisis, Mr Kenny was all over the place, unable to keep up with the fancy footwork of anti-austerity Athenians.

Determined to try to scupper Greece’s attempts at a debt write-down — mainly because if it were successful it would send his Government’s record on debt right down in the public’s opinion — Mr Kenny tried to play tough guy for the Troika.