sport
Share icon

Share

Lots of people are drawing parallels between Irish politics and Arsenal football club right now

Published 08:48 16 Feb 2017 GMT

Updated 08:57 16 Feb 2017 GMT

Mikey Stafford
Lots of people are drawing parallels between Irish politics and Arsenal football club right now

Homesport

As Wednesday nights go, it was pretty eventful.

Arsenal did an Arsenal, collapsing against Bayern Munich as their season imploded in 15 catastrophic second-half minutes. Meanwhile, back in Dublin, the government won a vote of confidence called in the wake of the latest twist in the Maurice McCabe Garda whistleblower saga. However, despite that vote, it is being reported this morning that Taoiseach Enda Kenny's days as leader of Fine Gael are numbered. https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/832127672025227265 Under pressure from his party, the Taoiseach may stand down within a week - leading many to wonder who will cling on to power longer: Kenny or Arsene Wenger. While it seems like Kenny has been in power forever, he only replaced Michael Noonan as leader of Fine Gael in 2002 - six years after Wenger took charge of the Gunners. Kenny became the first Fine Gael Taoiseach to win a second term in office last year, but like Arsenal, his best days are behind him. Both Wenger and Kenny are this morning realising that all power is fleeting. https://twitter.com/philmccabe83/status/831983578846208007 https://twitter.com/alanfoxpower/status/832004393838993408 https://twitter.com/tv_KevinSharkey/status/831994817123057665 https://twitter.com/gerry_lenihan/status/831989388070490112 https://twitter.com/PM9090/status/831980533320146944 https://twitter.com/confusedEnda/status/831979859383566336 https://twitter.com/Tedlynott/status/831959843909074949 What do you think? https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/832141250178473987

Explore more on these topics:

Lots of people are drawing parallels between Irish politics and Arsenal football club right now