Watching the Taoiseach’s departure…

 

…it was an odd experience. He’s clearly a decent enough person. And he had the good sense to look embarrassed by much of the proceedings. Yet this is a man whose policies have been deeply destructive to some, whose legacy is hard to discern because what is it? It’s an odd thing, this mixture of politics, policy, ideology and personality. An exuberant Eamon Ryan made a good point re massive rewriting of history in terms of the last ten years – though even Ryan’s perspective was very much his own when he spoke of ten years ago.

And then a brief hour was over, or not quite an hour, and there was Kenny at the doors leading out of the chamber with people coming up to shake his hand – at least it seemed some SF TDs included. What a difference two decades makes.

And then… that was that.

12 o’clock Wednesday, new Taoiseach.