Enda Kenny and co. are having a tough time as of late. With their hopes of re-election fading fast, in light of the latest string of opinion polls, the Taoiseach has today appealed to Irish people to let him be in charge for another while.
Defiant to the bitter end, he said “I don’t take much notice of polls, I’m always an optimist.”
Then, he added “My proposition is for the return of a stable Government. The Fianna Fail party have not learned any lessons. They left behind a programme that included €3bn payment in interest to Anglo Irish Bank every year. They left behind a programme that included an extra increase in income tax of €630m and they left on the table a cut in minimum wage to those who earn least and would suffer most.”
Fine Gael have lost five full percentage points of popular support since the campaign began.