Irish Examiner view: Emotional end to tumultuous career

Leo Varadkar giving a statement on his resignation on the steps of Government Buildings today. File picture

The Taoiseach as technocrat is a distinctive political identity, one which can be traced back to Garret FitzGerald and perhaps even as far as Seán Lemass.

Mr Varadkar’s conservative affect has a fair pedigree. However, when he became Taoiseach in 2017, his tenure came freighted with different possibilities. He was the