Unflappable Clinton shines on rainy night

THE last time someone was publicly feted on Raglan Road, poor Patrick Kavanagh was smitten and a future US president was in nappies.

At the weekend that future, now past, president took the place of the dark-haired beauty who inspired Kavanagh to verse and prompted some lyrical waxing of his own.

Bill Clinton’s visit to No 37 on the famed thoroughfare took place on a squally, sodden autumn day in Ballsbridge.