As Micheal Martin resigns and Leo Varadkar returns as Taoiseach, most people seem sure of the challenges that faces Varadkar ahead of the next election. But in February 2020, nobody could have imagined how the past three years would go, with a government which, as Gary Murphy points out in this podcast, “have spent to a degree that would make a Keynesian blush”. In May 2017, I spent four nights following the two candidates for the leadership of Fine Gael – and Taoiseach – as they debated each other across Ireland in front of the party members who would have…

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