Taoiseach does his homework on Sinn Féin

It was back to the classroom for Enda Kenny. The Taoiseach wanted to get into the minds of the gaggle of fifth- year students before him, writes Elaine Loughlin

“It’s always interesting to know what’s in your head”, he told the rows of teenagers at Mount Carmel secondary school in Dublin’s inner city.

Perhaps he wanted an insight into how gender quotas might look in the next Dáil. Putting on his former teacher’s hat, he told his female audience that they could do anything they aspire to, achieve anything.