Daniel McConnell: Simon Coveney’s gaffes could cost him as Leo looks at reshuffle

Simon Coveney

At the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting before Christmas, party leader and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar put his ministers “on notice”.

Confirming his intention to carry out a reshuffle later this year, when it is expected he will retake the Taoiseach’s office, Varadkar told his increasingly agitated troops that there will be changes in the ranks. Nothing rarely focuses the minds of ambitious politicians than reshuffles.