#Ploughing16: Taoiseach hints that he will be staying on as party leader until 2018 as he 'focuses on horizon'

“This not a time to mess around,” Taosieach Enda Kenny proclaimed to a welly clad and rain drenched bunch who had made their way into the Fine Gael tent at the National Ploughing Championships.

Before leaving Government Buildings for the firm Co Offaly soil, Mr Kenny had hinted to journalists he would be staying put as party leader until 2018.

At the ploughing yesterday Mr Kenny seemed to be waiting around for the end of the world as not even rain of a biblical scale would cut short his annual pilgrimage to every tent, stall, and shed.