Simon Coveney refusing to call time on leadership ambitions

Simon Coveney, spurred on by support from grassroots members and his unyielding stamina-fuelled determination, believes he can still narrow the Fine Gael leadership election race and steal the crown from rival Leo Varadkar.
In a large conference room in Carlow a few hours before the second leadership debate, Coveney is studying his notes assiduously in silence when I step in to interview him for the Irish Examiner.