‘We’re a society, not an economy. I hope they’ve learned that’

Last October, despite an eye infection, he waited for two hours outside a hotel in Limerick hoping to get a word with the Taoiseach on the way into the Fine Gael annual conference.
His mother, Noreen Keane, believes that if Enda Kenny stopped to talk to them, rather than driving past on that winter evening, he might have saved himself a lot of political hassle.