No end to the endless debate on Enda Kenny stepping down

We’ve been here before, haven’t we?

Last summer, in a bout of over-enthusiastic support for his dear leader, Fine Gael TD and Government chief whip Paul Kehoe told this newspaper that Taoiseach Enda Kenny was showing no signs of slowing up.

In an interview with the Irish Examiner, he batted away suggestions his party leader since 2002 may step down before the end of the next term in office — should Fine Gael be returned to power — by insisting Mr Kenny’s tenure will stretch far into the next decade.