Mr Kenny, the poor craythur, goes to DC

For the Taoiseach, it’s a case of damned if you do and damned if you don’t as he prepares to meet Donald Trump

Enda Kenny on a previous St Patricks Day visit to the White House Pic: RollingNews.ie

And so, after everything, Enda still goes to Washington. It neatly bookends his time as Taoiseach. He visited in 2011, days after becoming Taoiseach, following the most disruptive general election in our recent history.

When he goes into front-of-house hotel manager mode, nobody does it better than Enda Kenny. In particular, he revels in the annual White House jamboree. Before he ever attained ministerial office, he was famous for his disposition, at the ...