Dail Sharks Smell Blood As Gutless Kenny Flounders

By Shaun Connolly
Irish Examiner
February 10, 2013

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He flailed around like a fish on a slab, gasping for oxygen as the blades kept raining down to gut him.

The faces of squirming TDs behind the Taoiseach told their own story: Their expressions veered from embarrassment to fear that their leader could appear so out of touch with the national mood on such an emotive subject.

Yet again poorly advised by the inner circle on which he leans so heavily, and lacking the confidence or basic political emotional intelligence to over-ride them, Mr Kenny had nobody but himself to blame.

He had been poor and rambling in leader’s questions when the findings of the Magdalene Laundries inquiry broke on Tuesday, but this was a new level of desperation.

“His worst ever performance as Taoiseach,” said one normally loyal backbencher later.