Fast-footed Enda sends alarm bells ringing

IN a hare-footed flesh-pressing exercise around a Cork shopping mall, interrupted briefly by an alarm bell, Enda Kenny had his own Winona moment.

Careering through till number four at Dunnes Stores in Ballincollig after shooting the breeze with shoppers, an alarm went off causing heads to turn in search of the shoplifter — who looked strangely familiar.

It was Enda, caught empty-handed. Laughing off the incident with the nonchalance of a would-be Taoiseach, the Fine Gael leader continued his gallop, but not before taking time to answer some pressing questions from an anxious granny. Chris Hassett, from Ballincollig, had come specially to the centre with grandson Oisín to ask Enda to explain his plans for the Irish language.