Oliver Callan’s review of Leo Varadkar’s memoir criticised the former Taoiseach’s attitude towards the “housing disaster”. Complex issues deserve better than simple words.
The former Taoiseach delivers a memoir that reveals more about his grudges than his leadership, leaving readers with more questions than answers – especially surrounding his decision to resign.
A new PR and communication company was registered with the former Taoiseach as sole director. It comes as he announced his move to America with a new role at Harvard.
The final meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council that included Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney took place on Monday in Armagh. All the major players from both side of the border were there. But two of them won’t be back.
At 45, Leo Varadkar has a life ahead of him after politics. He has left a mixed legacy behind him, which contains lessons for his successor.
The outgoing Taoiseach’s unusual personality in Irish politics helps explain why he has run out of road. But does the small pool of future leaders illustrate a wider disillusionment with political careers?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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