Does Taoiseach Leo Varadkar ever think about Peter Sutherland as he worries in private moments about how to keep the plates spinning? Suds did some serious soul-searching on the issue of asylum seekers and refugees in the years when Leo was learning the geography of Leinster House as a rookie TD. Suds really was Fine Gael blue blood.  For much of his successful career, he moved smoothly among the monied and the powerful, on the world stage as well as in Ireland. But in the last phase of his working life, his views had many of his high-flying associates quietly wondering if…

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