Investment needed, but at what cost?

New Taoiseach Leo Varadkar may be inheriting an Ireland that is back in the money, but the investment challenges facing him remain daunting, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Mere days in office, Leo Vardakar is already engaged in fire fighting. He may, this weekend, be reflecting ruefully on his government’s handling of the judicial appointment of long-serving Attorney General Máire Whelan.

But he needs, above all, to keep an eye on the bigger prize, for he has been elected to preside over a fundamental overhaul of governance and not to run around flapping frantically, like a walker who has just disturbed a nest of wasps.