Enda Kenny’s successor and Sinn Féinare top of the agenda at Fine Gael meeting

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s future as Fine Gael leader is set to come under fresh scrutiny at a private meeting of party members tomorrow which is also expected to hear calls for potential successors to make themselves known.

The issue is likely to be raised by a number of TDs at tomorrow’s parliamentary party meeting after Mr Kenny last week failed to rule out any future coalition with Sinn Féin, causing acrimony within his party.

During a monthly press briefing last Thursday, he declined, three times, to reject any possibility of Fine Gael potentially entering government with Sinn Féin in the future.