Feted Taoiseach settling in well on Capitol Hill

It had been a hectic day, which had begun more than 12 hours earlier for Enda Kenny.

By the time he took to the podium at the swanky Willard Hotel at the Irish embassy reception, he was running on empty.

Whether it was deliberate or merely a case of the mask slipping, Mr Kenny quipped that given how well he was treated here in Washington DC, he wasn’t that keen to go home.