Leo Varadkar basks in the limelight a year after coronation

Unlike Enda Kenny, John Bruton and Michael Noonan before him, Leo Varadkar is in total control of his party, writes Daniel McConnell.

LAST Sunday, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and a select number of his ministers and TDs gathered in the Dean Hotel on Dublin’s Harcourt St in celebration.

Buoyed by the referendum result 24 hours earlier, those gathered included ministers Eoghan Murphy, Helen McEntee and Josepha Madigan and TDs Kate O’Connell, Tom Neville, Maria Bailey, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy and some key staff members — but they also drank to mark another milestone.