More humidity than stability as Fine Gael faithful feel the heat

Although it was the “hottest ticket in town,” as Taoiseach Enda Kenny joked, it’s unlikely many of the 250-strong attendance were left with too warm a feeling.

While the rest of the electorate basked outdoors as temperatures tipped the mid-20s, the Fine Gael faithful found themselves in the darkened confines of Dublin’s Mansion House for a fiscal treaty rally in the final few days of the countdown to the May 31 referendum.

Despite the best efforts of European Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton to rouse the troops with a warning that the referendum was a “battle of hearts and minds”, the response was more lukewarm than enthusiastic.