Kenny shows he’s on the ball

“YOU’RE too soft – like this rain.”

It wasn’t really what Enda Kenny wanted to hear on the drizzle-splattered streets of Newbridge, Kildare, yesterday, but the grumpy – and slightly damp looking – old man berating him had gone straight for the jugular and pinpointed a lingering national doubt that has dogged the leader of the opposition for seven long years.

With his trademark smile and ginger step, Mr Kenny brushed aside the negativity and simply got on with the job at hand, undaunted by the attack he has heard so many time before.