Varadkar open to hit-and-run inquiry

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is open to holding a public inquiry into claims that repeated Garda failures to arrest a Lithuanian man who later killed an Irish man in a hit-and-run have been covered up.

Mr Varadkar has faced cross-party demands for a formal investigation to be launched due to fears that an imminent Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc) report — which has dismissed serious allegations — is a whitewash.

In a press launch held two years after former taoiseach Enda Kenny said he was open to holding a public inquiry into what happened before failing to do so, the family of 23-year-old Monaghan native Shane O’Farrell demanded an inquiry into his death.