And as for Enda...

SO while Micheál Martin and Eamon Gilmore were slugging it out over the issues which will shape Ireland for the next five years, Enda Kenny was having a good feed.

While the other pretenders to the throne of Taoiseach were battling it out in the TV3 leaders debate, Enda was in the Bush Hotel in Carrick- on-Shannon tucking into his dinner, before addressing a town hall meeting.

Not for the first time in the past few days, Mr Kenny was again forced to defend his decision not to participate in the debate.