Leo Varadkar

Drama on the London Underground

13 July 2024 9:00 am

The girl lay slumped against a wall in front of me and someone ran to push the emergency button. I…

Lefties don’t know anything about farming

20 April 2024 9:00 am

The artists and hippies are re-wilding their land, which is to say doing nothing at all to it and watching…

Barbie Kardashian and Ireland’s trans madness

23 March 2023 1:59 am

Why are politicians so incapable of answering basic questions about biology? Yesterday it was Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s turn. A journalist…

Can Leo Varadkar defy the odds to win another term as Taoiseach?

18 January 2020 9:00 am

Back in October, Boris Johnson and the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met for ‘last-ditch’ Brexit talks at a hotel on the…

Boris needs to be explicit: it’s the UK’s offer or no deal

12 October 2019 9:00 am

The past few months have been characterised by weeks of high drama which, for all the excitement, have resolved nothing.…

For the first time since 1171, Ireland has more power than England

14 September 2019 9:00 am

Watching Boris Johnson in Dublin, where he came to ask Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to get him out of a hole,…

Varadkar’s backstop gamble could cost Ireland dearly

20 July 2019 9:00 am

‘The government has relished wearing the green jersey on Brexit and standing up to the British with the help of…

It’s not anti-Irish to criticise Leo Varadkar

20 April 2019 9:00 am

The relationship between the UK and the Republic of Ireland has ‘reached a hunger-strike low’, says a new study by…

Ireland’s strange decision to become a French colonial outpost

6 April 2019 9:00 am

Seventy years ago this month, a prime minister led a divided nation towards the exit from what was then one…

Letters: Is this a solution to the post-Brexit world?

5 January 2019 9:00 am

Lords reform Sir: How astonishing that the historian Robert Tombs (‘Beyond Brexit’, 15 December) should think that the Lords might…

Leo Varadkar has done his absolute best to damage Brexit

24 November 2018 9:00 am

How did we get into this Brexit mess? Why is it proving so difficult to leave the EU? Was it…

David Trimble: The Irish government is dragging Brexit into dangerous territory 

2 December 2017 9:00 am

When I negotiated the Good Friday Agreement nearly 20 years ago, no one foresaw a day when the -United Kingdom…

The Irish stance against Brexit is a dangerous gamble

25 November 2017 9:00 am

Never has a European Council been so important to a British prime minister as this December’s is to Theresa May.…