And some members of Oklahoma's house of representatives happened to notice.
But Mr Kenny insisted he was "a public representative, who happens to be a Catholic, but not a Catholic Taoiseach".
The protest, sponsored by Representative Yvette Clarke, happened because it's harder to get rid of memorials to the Confederacy in New York than one might imagine.
Nonetheless, Inglis had some success in attracting converts – though his highest-profile recent get, Representative Michael Grimm, happened to get arrested on fraud charges the same week he went public with his change of heart.
She's Deaf, she can't speak so it is her signs that is being interpreted by the interpreter to the NBI" (NGO representative, QC) "What happens is it's difficult to talk about it [sexual violence] because you're Deaf.
I think that's quite representative of what happens in the Muslim community all the time.
"Freedom Summer is the odd civic experience, and hardly representative of what happens when young people do service," he said.
It is not totally representative of what happens in the art world, or even of the art market".
"I'm sure that happens," Representative Gene Green, of Texas's Twenty-Ninth Congressional District, which serves eastern Houston, told me.
When he could still speak, Major Donnelly testified on Capitol Hill -- where, as it happens, Representative Christopher Shays, a Republican from the pilot's home state, Connecticut, has been a stinging critic of the Pentagon's treatment of sick gulf war veterans.
