Leo Varadakar
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Fluffy Leo faces backlash after Google video
- Politics
- January 29, 2020
If the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar or his handlers hoped the video just released – or dropped – on Twitter in which he answers what he says are the most fr(...)

Who is in the running for the EU's top jobs?
- Europe
- June 25, 2019, 01:00
Top jobs – the rules and the traditions Every five years, at the beginning of a new term of the European Parliament, the European Council, which is m(...)

Varadkar takes transparency in politics to a whole new level of crêpe
- Offbeat
- February 14, 2018, 11:10
Pity poor Leo Varadkar. Late last night on Twitter our Taoiseach posted what he described as his “last treat” before Lent and - by almost every single(...)

Halloween horror as banks play wicked game of ‘Trick or Track’
- Politics
- October 24, 2017, 21:53
Some of us have been here before. More than once: tribunal chambers, Oireachtas inquiries, courthouses . . . We wouldn’t be hugely confident about t(...)

Government’s culture strategy all spin and no substance
- Culture
- October 12, 2017, 01:00
The winter sun streamed through the tall windows of the refurbished Shaw Room in the National Gallery last December as theatre directors, film-makers(...)

Nails review: And you thought Irish hospitals were bad ...
- Film
- June 15, 2017, 16:00
We all know the Irish health service has gone to pot but the centre for medical non-excellence in Nails – replete with holes in the wall and a monster(...)

Hard-working Varadkar wanted to stand out from the crowd
- Irish News
- May 19, 2017, 21:00
The scene is a Dublin count centre in 2004. Leo Varadkar, a 25-year-old political novice, had just received nearly 5,000 first preference votes, a sta(...)

Noel Whelan: We are about to have another caretaker government
- Opinion
- February 24, 2017, 04:00
The timing and manner of Enda Kenny’s stepping down and the question of who is to succeed him is not merely an internal Fine Gael matter. It will give(...)

Miriam Lord: Without a whistleblower to call upon, you’re nobody
- Politics
- February 16, 2017
It’s the must-have accessory in Leinster House these days. You’re nobody if you don’t have a whistleblower to call upon in this time of crisis. Ye(...)

Noel Whelan: Expect a weak budget from a weak Government
- Opinion
- October 7, 2016, 01:00
The lead into this year’s budget has followed traditional patterns. It was supposed to be different this time but it is not. Even though there is now (...)