Daniel McConnell: Simon Harris makes it clear to all 'I wanna be the leader'

Higher education minister's ambition is laudable but he must remember to be careful what he wishes for
Daniel McConnell: Simon Harris makes it clear to all 'I wanna be the leader'

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Simon Harris: Some cynics have said that while the two are appearing to work well now, when Varadkar has nothing left to hold over Harris, his push for the top could become much more aggressive.

IN the office of the late Aengus Fanning, my former editor at the Sunday Independent, hung the Roger McGough poem ‘The Leader’.

“I wanna be the leader, I wanna be the leader, Can I be the leader? Can I? I can? Promise? Promise? Yippee I’m the leader, I’m the leader, OK what shall we do?” the poem goes.

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