New Cabinet goes to Coppers to celebrate

Coppers on Harcourt St, Dublin, is a regular stomping ground for GAA players, off-duty gardaí, and celebrities who all squeeze in and dance into the early hours.

However, on Wednesday night the popular nightclub that is Copper Face Jacks hosted an altogether different gathering, with a Fine Gael celebration party heading out on the town in the wake of the appointment of Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach. Ministers clutching their seals of office just after the first Cabinet meeting with the President at Áras an Uachtaráin made a beeline for the nightclub to cheer on the newly elected Fine Gael leader. An entire floor had been booked out for the celebrations.

I t was a rare sight to see ministers ditching their lever arch files to hit the dancefloor, with Independent TDs Michael Healy-Rae and Mattie McGrath, as well as Fianna Fáil TDs, joining in.