After 46 years in the journalism trade, keeping an eye on the actions and utterances of eleven Taoisigh, Leo Varadkar is by far the most difficult to predict. He is wired differently. Part of what makes him interesting is one can’t be sure what he will do or say next. He sometimes discards caution, the “on the one hand and on the other” use of caveats mechanism that is the stock-in-trade of most politicians in power. Certainly, on Northern Ireland, North-South and British-Irish relations, a striking pattern with Leo is his willingness to ruffle feathers. In recent weeks he was…
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