A rise without trace for our unlikely Taoiseach

On the day that yet another piece of bungling by this government was identified by the Supreme Court ("acted wrongfully . . . in a manner that was not fair, equal or impartial"), Enda Kenny was being feted in Berlin as the "European of the Year" - essentially because of the docility of the Irish people in surrendering to the troika's austerity diktats.

In the ...