'He needs to lead by example': Mattie McGrath criticises Varadkar's picnic in Phoenix Park

Leo Varadkar pictured in Phoenix Park, Dublin last weekend.

Independent TD Mattie McGrath has criticised the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for not leading by example after being photographed with friends in the Phoenix Park last weekend during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mr McGrath told Newstalk’s Pat Kenny show there had been “very little” in the Irish media about the Taoiseach “having a picnic” because they were “more obsessed” with Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson “than dealing with our own failings here in Ireland.”