Housing crisis questions follow Varadkar to Washington DC

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaking in the Senate Room at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.  Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

We've all been there. You travel 3,600 miles from home and all anyone wants to talk about is domestic life.

On the first of a three-day visit to the US today, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar found the Irish media less interested in his various meetings with business leaders than the potential effects of the eviction ban ending and advertisements taken out by the Friends of Sinn Féin calling for Irish unity.