Adviser to former TD suing local newspaper recounts conversation with Enda Kenny over pint

An adviser to a former TD suing for defamation has told the High Court he commented in 2014 to then-Taoiseach Enda Kenny over a pint in a pub that a voice in government would be beneficial for Waterford following a poor local election result for Fine Gael.

Paul Fox, who was an adviser to FG Sen Paudie Coffey, a former junior minister and TD, was giving evidence in the senator's defamation action against Iconic Newspapers over a January 2016 article in the Kilkenny People.