The next general election might be Leo Varadkar's one last chance to show that those who put their trust in voting for him as leader in 2017 knew what they were doing.
Shane Ross's biography of Mary Lou McDonald is really a book about the author's search for the Sinn Féin leader. Doors which he thought would be open to him are routinely shut in his face as the wider republican family decide that no one should talk to him although it is clear that some have on condition of anonymity.
Leo Varadkar was seen as a once in a generation politician by many who voted for when he was elected Fine Gael leader in 2017. Five years later, after a bruising general election and a series of crises, Fine Gael no longer knows what it stands for.
In the first of a series of political essays, Gary Murphy, author of Haughey, considers the conditions that led to the collapse of the party's vote and what its future is.
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