Kenny braves winds to put wind behind FG sails

MAYO provides a hostile environment nowadays. Both for Fianna Fáil leaders who are moving to drum the Flynn dynasty from the party, and for Fine Gael leaders even though they may come from the county.

But the manner of hostility Enda Kenny faced yesterday was not political. It was an even-more all-consuming reality of Irish life, the weather.

On the second day of a two-day whistlestop tour of the country by air, the FG leader's eight-seater plane was really tested to the limit by the conditions.