Sober occasion: restrained Kenny sets tone for ‘think-in’

THE alfresco hot tub bubbled away untroubled by the Taoiseach.

Enda Kenny remained unswayed by the frivolities on offer at the up-market Galway hotel where Fine Gael had gathered for its September ‘think-in.’

The atmosphere was more sober — in all senses of the word — than last year’s get-together in the same city by the then-dominant power in the land, Fianna Fáil, which really did live-up to the ‘drink-in’ tag usually loaded onto such events.