Comment: Pontiff finds Enda otherwise engaged

Enda Kenny certainly knows how to put the tiff into Pontiff.

The passive-aggressive nature of his relationship with the papacy was once more to the fore as the Taoiseach’s audience with the Pope in Rome soon descended into just one man and his phone.

Like a surly teenager, Enda repeatedly played with his mobile during Pope Benedict XVI’s weekend address to European conservative leaders at the Vatican.