Ellen Coyne: ‘There is a new political generation who never had to choose between progressive views and politically popular ones’

Ellen Coyne: ‘There is a new political generation who never had to choose between progressive views and politically popular ones’

Ten years ago, Leo Varadkar walked into an RTÉ studio on his 36th birthday and told the country that he was a gay man. “It’s not a secret, but not something everyone would necessarily know, but it isn’t something I’ve spoken publicly about before now,” the then health minister told Miriam O’Callaghan.