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Leo Varadkar
The latest news, analysis, and comment concerning Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar
Ireland’s ageing population to put major strain on public finances in coming decades
Pensions, healthcare and long-term care costs expected to rise sharply, says Department of Finance report
2024 in Irish politics: Elections, leadership changes, referendums and restoration
After a year of two lost referendums, a taoiseach’s resignation and huge losses for government partners the Greens, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are returning to power
Nonfiction books to look out for in 2025: Leo Varadkar and Brenda Fricker memoirs among year’s most anticipated titles
Books on the Famine, the Troubles, the Aran Islands and Gaza, and an account by the daughter of Dominique Pelicot of how she and her mother Gisèle rebuilt their lives, are also due out
Miriam Lord’s review of the year: Shock resignations, ruptured relations and an over-eager new Taoiseach
A year of change heralds a future of more of the same
Eamon Ryan: ‘If Labour and Soc Dems were ambitious on climate, they’d be going into government’
Former Green Party leader opens up about ‘being attacked from all sides’ and party’s general election wipeout
Public ethics watchdog rules out inquiry into Leo Varadkar’s leak of confidential document
Standards in Public Office Commission decides not to investigate, reaffirming earlier decision – quashed by High Court – despite internal divisions
‘Leo the leak’ affair still lingers five years on
Sipo has resolved for a second time not to investigate the leaking of a draft State contract with the Irish Medical Organisation when Varadkar was taoiseach
Concerns raised about the risks to taxpayers from how housing bodies and the LDA fund construction deals
The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk
Leo Varadkar anecdote exposes financial blind spot
Former taoiseach's claim that even ministers don’t always understand percentages underlines lack of financial understanding in society
Former Tory minister Steve Baker: ‘Ireland has been treated badly by the UK. It’s f**king shaming’
Emotional former Tory minister for Northern Ireland Steve Baker 'embarrassed Ireland was treated the way it was by the United Kingdom’
Does Varadkar’s assessment add up? Just how good – or bad – are Irish politicians with numbers?
Leo Varadkar recently said politicians generally aren’t good at maths. We asked some of his former Dáil colleagues and a government economic adviser if they agreed
Catherine Martin has been the most consequential minister for culture since Michael D Higgins
The outgoing Green Party TD delivered on her predecessors’ promises to address Ireland’s woeful shortfall when it comes to supporting cultural activity
Leo Varadkar is right: basic maths should not flummox a minister or any of us
Wouldn’t it be novel if the next taoiseach chose his cabinet on the basis of their qualifications, competence and relevant experience and included a few arithmetic nerds?
One in four adults in Ireland struggle with everyday maths such as calculating percentages
Finding comes as former taoiseach Leo Varadkar says many in politics and media do not understand numbers
Leo Varadkar says many in politics do not understand numbers or percentages
Former taoiseach urged doctors not to ‘sell themselves short’ in pay negotiations with the government
Pipeline of new hospital development projects not sufficiently strong, Varadkar says
Former taoiseach and minister for health says about 500 additional beds need to be provided annually to keep up with population growth
More than 80% of learner drivers involved in fatal crashes since 2016 were driving unaccompanied
58 people have died in 57 separate collisions involving unaccompanied learner drivers in last eight years
Dublin West constituency candidates list: Fine Gael Senator has decent chance of picking up Varadkar seat
Election 2024: Sinn Féin TD Paul Donnelly should be returned, but it might be a big ask for the party to take two seats
Election 2024 is, almost officially, on
In the next couple of weeks, the gloves may well and truly come off between the Coalition partners
The unravelling of a housing minister: Eoghan Murphy opens up about sleeping pills, manic running, anxiety and tears
Former minister for housing Eoghan Murphy’s account of his failures (and failings) is candid, unforgiving, unfiltered and utterly brutal
The general election war rooms: Who’s who behind the parties’ election campaign teams?
Strategies, slogans and manifestos are being finalised behind the scenes as polling day looms
How a €325m Irish factory became part of a geopolitical battle between US and China
Ireland needs to develop the ability to conduct national security assessments of proposed foreign investors, says security expert
U2 drummer Larry Mullen jnr can’t live with work done on his Howth property
Plus: You can’t keep Phil Hogan down, trouble at Jack’s Hole in Brittas, and Ireland’s starring role in reality TV
Boris Johnson says Joe Biden told him his family origins ‘were not really Irish at all’
Former Tory PM makes claim about US president in new memoir, Unleashed, which also focuses on Brexit tensions over Irish Border
Varadkar seems intent on ensuring Ireland continues to haunt Starmer’s Britain
If Keir Starmer wants to be remembered as a prime minister for the United Kingdom, not just England, he needs to address the question of a Border poll
Leo Varadkar could learn something from Jimmy Carter about how to retire
The afterlives of political leaders are often greater measures of their character than their times in office are. It’s hard to let go - just watch former leaders who lack the grace to dial down the wise-after-the-event pronouncements
Is Varadkar right that every party should make a united Ireland an objective? Conor O’Malley and Fergus O’Dowd debate
Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar said every party should make Irish unification ‘an objective, not an aspiration’. But is that the right goal? And what needs to happen first?
Varadkar and Harris are wrong. It’s not immigration causing homelessness, but Government policy
The main reason people are homeless in Dublin is not that they left direct provision or arrived from abroad
Have Irish immigration numbers risen ‘too quickly’? How Ireland compares to other European countries
An analysis of immigration numbers following Leo Varadkar’s remark that people are ‘right’ to believe numbers have risen too quickly
Varadkar says immigration numbers have risen too quickly in Ireland
Former taoiseach warns against populism and prejudice but concedes immigration a challenge for Irish society
Varadkar and Eastwood speak to Derry students - but only the Catholics show up
The word ‘safe’ comes up a lot from the students, as does the desire for a peaceful future, more university places in their home city and the chance of a job locally
Leo Varadkar says vote on Irish unity could involve a ‘two-stage referendum’
Former taoiseach says people could first vote on the idea in principle before getting a subsequent confirmatory vote on a proposed new constitution
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