Sorry Leo, they're just not that into you

LEO Varadkar is thinking about a same-sex marriage with Fianna Fáil — trouble is, they are just not that into him.

The thrusting Thatcherite, and front runner to be next leader of Fine Gael, has gone a woo-ing and coo-ing with all the romance of a particularly bluff and belligerent Mr Darcy, and has shown scant regard for the pride and prejudice that has divided the two parties since that unfortunate business in the 1920s.

Health Minister Mr Varadkar rather provocatively told a meeting of young Fine Gaelers: “Coalition with Fianna Fáil would be a little like a same-sex marriage; it would seem wrong at first, but would probably work out fine in the end,” the Irish Mail on Sunday reported.