Taoiseach: ‘I profoundly regret if anyone thinks I do not support a free press’

The Taoiseach has said he “profoundly regrets” if anybody thinks he does not respect the Irish media but hit out at journalists who “are not always true”.

Leo Varadkar was accused of being “notorious” for “feeding the rumour mill” with journalists in Leinster House when he was a minister.