Meet the Varadkars: ‘Handsome, beautiful 38-year-old doctor becomes PM of Ireland’

Miriam Lord pays a house call to Miriam and Ashok, the parents of our next taoiseach

Leo Varadkar’s parents, Miriam and Ashok, at home in Blanchardstown. Photograph: Alan Betson

Leo Varadkar’s parents, Miriam and Ashok, at home in Blanchardstown. Photograph: Alan Betson

If you didn’t know the full story, you might be inclined to think that Miriam and Ashok Varadkar have already lost the run of themselves, and their youngest child not even taoiseach yet.

Miriam answers the front door dressed to the nines in an elegant cobalt blue cocktail dress. Her husband rushes down the hall to greet us, impeccably turned out in a grey pin-stripe suit with a blue-and-white-spotted silk square billowing from the top pocket.

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