Fine Gael Leadership

Five weeks is too short a period to form anything approaching a defining assessment of any prime minister. However, as politics is about to go into re(...)

Contrary to much of the disappointed media commentary, Leo Varadkar managed to pull off a fairly dramatic Cabinet reshuffle. If anything, he may have (...)

Leo Varadkar has promised that his Government will be different. For one, he says, he wants to scotch any public perception Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil (...)

International reaction to the election of Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach has largely focused on his sexuality. Mr Varadkar joins Luxembourg’s Prime Minis(...)

It was not until he was formally elected Taoiseach yesterday that the full implications of Leo Varadkar’s extraordinary rise to the most powerful offi(...)

Leo Varadkar was elected Taoiseach yesterday and immediately announced a Cabinet reshuffle in which he promoted several Fine Gael TDs to leadership po(...)

Taoiseach Leo Eric Varadkar (38) Dublin West Outgoing minister for social protection, previously held health and transport portfolio. Mr Varadkar (...)

Mary Mitchell O’Connor was the only casualty in Leo Varadkar’s Cabinet reshuffle following his appointment as Taoiseach on Wednesday. Eoghan Murphy,(...)

Independent TD Michael Lowry has said he had “two discussions’’ with Leo Varadkar before deciding to vote for him as Taoiseach. He told the Dáil on (...)

Leo Varadkar has signed his warrant of office and assumed the role of Taoiseach. He is the youngest person to hold the office since the foundation of (...)