Enda Kenny’s bid to woo the nation gets off to a grey start

It didn’t take all this talk of “rainy day funds” for things to get gloomy as the Taoiseach kicked off his campaign tour of the country.

As he arrived into Shay Murtagh Precast Concrete Solutions in Raharney, in the Meath West constituency yesterday, the sky was grey, the cement was grey, the suits were grey, and Mr Kenny’s speech was frankly... you’ve guessed it.

The only colour came from the high-vis overalls of the construction staff who sat with disinterested and baffled expressions — apart from the one worker who was franticly sending snapchats of the leader to all his friends. But Enda still went into the detail of the economic impacts of a Chinese downturn, the strife in Syria, and Brexit.