Kenny's pick n' mix

Enda Kenny's first cabinet reshuffle is looming. Who are the possible winners and losers - and who's waiting in the wings? Michael Brennan reports.

Enda Kenny is preparing for his first cabinet reshuffle since becoming Taoiseach more than three years ago. Picture: Graham Hughes

As the longest-serving TD in the Dáil, Taoiseach Enda Kenny knows all about cabinet reshuffles. He knows about the frustration of having to wait for promotion, having been a TD for 20 years before he got to cabinet.

He has seen the reshuffles that have gone wrong – Labour’s Barry Desmond refusing Garret FitzGerald’s order to move departments in 1986, and Albert Reynolds firing eight of Charlie Haughey’s ministers after ousting him in ...