McGurk: The remarkable triumph of the man least likely

Enda Kenny has reinvented Fine Gael and replaced Fianna Fáil as the natural party of government

Enda Kenny has done a fantastic job leading Fine Gael

This is a column I never expected to write.

From the moment the man in question got his job I was convinced that not only would he be unable to do it, but that his time in it would be very short. I could see none of his talents. Like many many others, I couldn’t warm to him and I also thought that he was unsellable to a wider public. In all of ...