Leo Varadakar

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(...)

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(...)

Some of us have been here before. More than once: tribunal chambers, Oireachtas inquiries, courthouses . . . We wouldn’t be hugely confident about t(...)

The winter sun streamed through the tall windows of the refurbished Shaw Room in the National Gallery last December as theatre directors, film-makers(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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 (...)

A project by The Irish Times to track the impact of the election campaign on the voting intentions of 10 voters has found all have retained their pre(...)