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Full coverage: Leo Varadkar

Varadkar resigns: Leonomics in 10 charts

Leo Varadkar has announced his resignation as Taoiseach and party leader, two positions he first assumed in June 2017. A pandemic and a European war later, how has the Irish economy changed under his tenure?

N. Sargent and T. Hubert
20th Mar, 2024 - 3 min read

Tommie Gorman: What will Micheál Martin do next?

If Micheál Martin can take comfort from his personal popularity and the assessment of his time as Taoiseach, any analysis of how the Fianna Fáil he leads is perceived produces bleak results.

Tommie Gorman
4th Mar, 2023 - 7 min read

Tommie Gorman: The day Rishi Sunak said ‘No more’

The British government is no longer prepared to let the second largest party in its smallest devolved administration decide the terms and the pace of the UK’s relationship with its nearest and most important trading partner, the EU.

Tommie Gorman
28th Feb, 2023 - 7 min read

Gary Murphy: Can the boy wonder of Fine Gael now show political maturity?

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.

Gary Murphy
17th Dec, 2022 - 9 min read

“There’s no evidence that Leo Varadkar has brought Fine Gael any electoral fruits and that’s the real test for him”

The government have reached the halfway point but, as Leo Varadkar returns as Taoiseach, the prospect of one of the most significant elections in modern Irish history will dominate everything before too long.

Dion Fanning
17th Dec, 2022 - 3 min read

Through circumstance not design, Leo Varadkar bought into the idea of the bigger state. There is no turning back

During his time as Minister for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment, Leo Varadkar bought into the ideology of intervention. How will this translate when he resumes higher office?

John Burns
16th Dec, 2022 - 6 min read

Leo Varadkar on legacy, avoiding a recession and why Boris Johnson’s government is a danger to Ireland

In a wide-ranging interview, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar discusses a new priority system for data centres, changes to capital gains tax, the prospect of a trade war with the UK, and his determination to improve working conditions in Ireland.

Rosanna Cooney
19th Jun, 2022 - 12 min read

Gary Murphy: Where did it all go wrong for Leo Varadkar and how do Fine Gael recover?

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.

Gary Murphy
28th May, 2022 - 9 min read

Power and pandemonium: The “unknown man” who drove Ireland’s response to the pandemic

Ed Brophy was in government when Covid-19 hit the country. He talks to the authors of a book on that time about the decisions made, the personalities who drove Ireland's response and why they matter more than policy in Ireland's system.

Ed Brophy
14th May, 2022 - 2 min read

The Attorney General, a government with no sense of direction and a conflict of interest?

The government has rejected suggestions that there was a conflict of interest when the attorney general retained a number of private cases, including one for the directors of INM. The affair raises questions.

Tom Lyons
2nd Oct, 2021 - 5 min read
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