Alison O'Connor: What is Leo Varadkar's agenda in such a high-stakes blame game?

This Government has become a byword for the term 'communication breakdown' and this appears to be yet another juicy example, writes Alison O'Connor

Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer, was the victim  of a nasty attack by Tánaiste Leo Vardaka.

From hero to zero. That’s the fate that befell our chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan, following his return to work this week — at least in the view of his former political boss.

It’s a few days since Dr Holohan underwent a Varadkar special, being disembowelled on prime time television on Monday night, but the shock seems just as acute. In an interview, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, a medical doctor himself, wielded the scalpel with all the precision of a blunderbuss, leaving many in their sitting rooms around the country gasping at the deliberate brutality.