Paul Hosford: McEntee 'was never interested in Fine Gael leadership'

The last year has seen Minister for Justice Helen McEntee go from Simon Harris’s equal in the race to be the next Fine Gael leader to being the first minister to endorse him publicly. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Helen McEntee was never interested in the Fine Gael leadership. So she says, at least.

The day after Leo Varadkar had created a vacancy for which Ms McEntee had once been tipped as a certainty, the Justice Minister told LMFM yesterday morning that her mind was made up long ago.