Former taoiseach’s language was loose but what he said about modern Ireland was right
Unlike Leo Varadkar, active politicians are slow to offend anyone and so would rather say nothing, Photo: Getty
“Paddy likes to know what the story is,” Enda Kenny famously declared, in a dig at top Fianna Fáil ministers’ unconvincing denials that a bailout was on the way back in 2010.
It resonated with a public at the time deeply resentful at being kept in the dark about matters of vital national interest.