City slicker Leo Varadkar manages to put his foot in it at the Ploughing

Leo Varadkar took his first bold step onto the pristine furrow — time stopped, breaths were held, and ploughing matriarch Anna May McHugh put her hands to her face in shock.

The Taoiseach had put his foot in it — literally.

You can take the man out of leafy Castleknock, stick some new black wellies on him, and a pair of beige chinos to top off the country gentleman look, but you clearly can’t teach a city boy the ways of rural Ireland.