Politics

Varadkar’s strong words on Brexit, but has government position changed?

Inside Politics: Former PUP member Sophie Long joins Michael O’Regan, Fiach Kelly and Mary Minihan

Taoiseach Varadkar travels to Northern Ireland this weekend where he will attend a gay Pride breakfast event in Belfast on Saturday morning, a move that might annoy the DUP. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Jennifer Ryan
Wed Aug 2 2017 - 12:59

On this week’s Inside Politics podcast, former Progressive Unionist Party member and feminist academic Sophie Long, discusses Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s recent comments about Ireland’s post-Brexit border.

Ms Long, who resigned as the PUP’s communications director after she came under fire for tweeting her condolences on the death of Martin McGuinness, joins Michael O’Regan and Fiach Kelly, with Mary Minihan on presenting duties this week.

Taoiseach Varadkar travels to Northern Ireland this weekend where he will attend a gay Pride breakfast event in Belfast on Saturday morning, a move that might annoy the DUP according the Ms Long, but won’t have any major impact.

Anthony Scaramucci’s short-lived stint as White House director of communications also gets a mention in this episode, as well as Kevin Myers’s controversial column in the Irish edition of The Sunday Times last weekend and the public reaction to TD’s outstanding €5,500 Dáil bar bill.