Shane Kenny is waiting when I arrive at the Beacon Studios for this weekend’s podcast. He is a man who it is clear immediately possesses the admirable quality that he sees no need for small talk. After the briefest of introductions, we discuss his absorbing new book Under The Rainbow, the story of his time as Government press secretary to the Rainbow Coalition from 1994 to 1997. “Do you get it?” he asks me and I say I think I do. What ‘It’ is was the driver behind his book. He is explaining this to me outside the studio where…

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