Leo Varadkar’s gap year: ‘I don’t have to care what the media or voters think. I can just be myself a bit more’

Leo Varadkar’s gap year: ‘I don’t have to care what the media or voters think. I can just be myself a bit more’

Leo Varadkar was just a “wet day” in the Dáil — to use Bertie Ahern’s phrase — when he got stuck into the taoiseach of the day, Brian Cowen, suggesting that like another former taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, he would “enjoy writing boring columns for the Irish Times” in his retirement.