Why always us, Taoiseach?

Enda Kenny has been less visible than his predecessors, but his appearance in Madrid recently was a showstopper, writes Caroline O’Doherty

It was the political equivalent of returning from a fishing trip, arms flung out as far as they would stretch, declaring for all to hear: “It was this big.”

But the problem with Enda Kenny’s fisherman’s tale told to the European People’s Party congress in Madrid was that he wasn’t talking about a four-and-a-half-foot salmon wrestled from the rapids of the River Moy.