Leo’s grand tour part of a plan to make up lost ground

Not since the days of Big Tom and the Mainliners Showband tours has the country been traversed as extensively and in rapid-speed. Since the Dáil term ended back in mid-July, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been travelling the highways, byways and waterways of Ireland.

From Belfast to Galway, Cork to Leitrim, Donegal to Meath and back again: our Taoiseach is a man on a mission — but this is not some lazy staycation. What is Leo Varadkar up to?