Tall tales will be found out in short order

It was conspiracy theory central in the Dáil on Wednesday. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was on the receiving end of a battering from opposition leaders Micheál Martin, Mary Lou McDonald, and Brendan Howlin over events at last week’s EU Council meeting.

As you might remember, it was reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron piled the pressure on Varadkar to cough up an explanation as to how he intends protecting the single market in the case of a no-deal Brexit.