'Well done, that was some speech': Hundreds emailed Varadkar after St Patrick's Day Covid-19 address

A record breaking 1.6 million watched the St Patrick's Day broadcast.

An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

New records released by the Dept of the Taoiseach under the Freedom Of Information Act show that Mr Varadkar received 530 emails in the hours after his St Patrick's Day address to the nation on the Covid-19 pandemic, and the following two days.

The records show that 106 emails were sent on the night of the speech and followed up with 268 emails on March 18 and 156 on March 19.